Mode choice analysis of inter-island passenger travel from Iloilo to Negros Occidental, Philippines

• Main Author: Roquel, Krister Ian Daniel Zafra
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2013
• Subjects: Choice of transportation—Philippines—Visayan Islands; Civil Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/6943
• Institution: De La Salle University

Effectively managing inter-island travel is critical to the unified economic position of a country, especially for archipelagos like the Philippines, where interisland travel directly affects the local economy, its capacity for development, and even its basic functions. To efficiently manage a transport network, it is important to understand how the travelling population makes their travel mode choices, just as much as the operating characteristics of the network itself. This can be done by conducting a mode choice analysis of the travel network. This study covers the development of logit choice models, based on both revealed and stated preferences of the Iloilo-Negros Occidental travelling population. It was found that the most significant factor affecting travel mode choice is time, in both its aggregate and disaggregate forms. The value of travel time savings was computed to be at Php 87.89 / hour. Other travel mode characteristics, like cost and comfort, as well as socio-demographic information, like age and income class, were also found to affect the behavior of the traveller as well. Using the models developed, travel demand among the currently operating options, as well as those options that could come into operation upon the construction of the Panay-Guimaras-Negros (PGN) Bridges, were forecasted. It was found that if the PGN bridge project were to be constructed, approximately 78% of the travelling population, or over one (1) million travellers yearly, would transfer from their current choice to a public transport option, mostly towards the air-conditioned bus alternative.