Abstract:
Major rail transit systems require substantial amount of investment, and hence it is important to attract as many users of the systems as possible. To encourage rail transit travel, there must exist effective feeder services to transit stations. The objectives of this research are to examine transit users satisfaction of station access modes, to investigate factors affecting transit station accessibility, and to determine factors influencing mode choice of travel, particularly walking, for users living within two kilometers of transit station. The data collection tool in this project is primarily questionnaire. Passenger interviews were conducted at 13 BTS stations, yielding 1,013 observations. The data were analyzed using STATA, and the statistical results show that the most popular access mode is bus (21% of the sample), followed by walking (17%). The average access times by bus and walking are 42.64 and 8.24 minutes, respectively. The level of satisfaction of each mode of travel is moderate, except for those of walking, BTS shuttle, car, and kiss-and-ride, which are high. The linear regression results show that factors affecting transit station accessibility are trip characteristics and land use variable, including number of transfers, travel time, departure time, and residential density. Additionally, logit models for binary mode choice between walking and motorized modes were estimated. The results reveal that factors influencing mode choice include level of comfort, distance to transit station, marital status, car ownership, and station specific dummy variables, which might reflect the conditions of walking facility and infrastructure within two kilometers of transit stations