The Influence of Parking Tariffs and Quality of the Public Transport on Commuters Mode Choice

The presented study analysis travel mode choice for commuters between car and public transport modes. The aim of the study is to find out if parking tariffs and the quality of the public transport have an influence on commuters mode choice. The models are build with the help of a mixed-effects logistic regression with two levels. Level 1 contains control variables at personal level and level 2 contains control variables at municipality level and also included the variables of interest parking tariffs and quality of the public transport. Data was gathered from different sources like OViN, CBS and NPR. The used dataset has 21.323 observations in 418 municipalities in the Netherlands. The results shows that both parking tariffs as quality of the public transport has a positive significant influence on the use of public transport modes. But there is not a significant interaction effect found between those two variables. A focus on one of the two should be a good recommendation for policy makers to persuade people to switch from the car to public transport modes.