Survey and Analysis of Employee Responses to Employer-Sponsored Trip ReductionIncentive Programs. Technical Appendix A Model Calibration Report

摘要

The central effort of the study has been the development of a mathematical modelthat tries to explain the commuter's choice of travel mode in terms of various attributes of the employee, the transportation system, and the workplace. The study has examined this issue and has led to the development of an additional sub-model to estimate to what degree employees are likely to be aware of certain influential factors. The report is a description of the development of the mode choice and awareness models. In this content, a model is a set of mathematical relationships that estimates a dependent variable (mode choice or awareness) in terms of various independent variables (travel cost, TDM incentives, etc.). The model consists of nothing more than equations that can be applied with a hand-held calculator, although that would prove rather tedious.