Reconstructing Surveyed Itineraries and Choices between Inter-City and Regional Train Services

Abstract

This contribution presents findings from a network-based examination of observed route choice behaviour of railway travellers in the German Federal State of Thuringia. The purpose is twofold: On the one hand, the idea was to assure that the VISUM 12 timetable network models were capable of ex-post reconstructing the exact itineraries from passenger surveys. When this could be achieved, the second step was to use these RP data to explain the binary choice between the combined usage of the Inter-City and regional network versus the regional network only through econometric modelling. The trade-off between different service level characteristics was of special interest. The O-D specific demand split was incorporated in the State Transport Model to replace a formerly fixed segmentation of regional network captives from choice riders on the entire network.