Intention of Railway Commuters to Departure Time Shifting by Incentive Measures

Abstract

Stated preference survey on shifting commuting time by incentive measures is conducted to railway commuters in Tokyo metropolitan area. ‘Points for train ride’, ‘discount of station access cost’, ‘lounge service at the terminal station’ and ‘train congestion reducing’ are set as incentives for commuters’ time shifting in the survey. As a result of that, authors find that 1) the condition of incentives (e.g. amount of point) is independent from the amount of time shift, 2) the intention to shifting time is not linearly related to the amount of time shift, and seat availability and points for train ride have potential to change departure time.