Revision with unchanged content. This book explores into people's
dependence on informal neighborhood transit in their key role that
connects between people's residences inside the local street network and
mainline transit on the main road. The study argues that such dependence
is influenced by the physical characteristics of the local street
network, and thus can be reduced by altering the local street
characteristics to facilitate walking as an alternative means of travel
for transit access trips. Two local-street characteristics are
considered, trip distance and pedestrian route directness (the ratio of
trip distance and straight-line distance). To investigate the
relationships, a nested logit model is estimated using the 2003 Bangkok
Travel Survey dataset. The model results indicate that trip distance
negatively impacts pedestrian travel the most at a statistically
significant level. Therefore, policies to reduce transit access trip
distance are likely to increase the likelihood of walking, as opposed to
using neighborhood transit services. In addition, pedestrian route
directness is used to determine appropriate policy directions and target
areas to improve transit accessibility.