The Modal Split of Cities: A Workplace-Based Mixed Modelling Perspective

Many transport planners and policy-makers compare cities on the basis of travel behaviour or transport system characteristics. These comparisons are then used to promote cities as 'cycling capitals' or 'public transport paradises'. However, data-related and methodological issues make comparisons across cities difficult. This paper presents an alternative to the dominant atomistic-residential perspective which takes a random sample of residents in a city as input. We conceptualise cities as concentrations of workplaces and compare the commuting behaviour of employees active in a selection of se... Mehr ...