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.