Fundamentals of Transportation/Mode Choice/Additional Problems

Additional Questions

 * 1) What factors determine mode choice, utility $$U_{mij}$$
 * 2) What role does socio-economics play in mode choice?
 * 3) What is an aggregate model, disaggregate model?
 * 4) How is probability ($$P_m$$) calculated?
 * 5) What happens to probability when utility increases or decreases?
 * 6) Why is it hard for transportation engineers to determine how many people will be taking one mode?
 * 7) Who developed the logit model for transportation mode choice?
 * 8) What is “kiss and ride”
 * 9) What happens when a new mode is introduced?
 * 10) Explain the red bus/blue bus paradox, and Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives feature of multinomial logit models.
 * 11) Compare the logit model with the gravity model.
 * 12) What is an alternative specific constant?

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