A Study for Passengers’ Preferences of Self-Driving Shuttle Bus-A Case Study of Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum

  • 蘇 祥愷

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Abstract

Self-driving shuttle bus is being tested in countries around the world This study aims to understand the passengers’ preferences of self-driving shuttle bus including their preferred mode of operation in the different types of fields and the preferences of passengers that in different socio-economic characteristics and trip characteristics To understand the passengers’ preferences of the self-driving shuttle bus the study conducted a questionnaire survey by test-ride activity in Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum The questionnaire collected the personal information such as the socio-economic characteristics and trip characteristics of the respondents and used stated preference (SP) to simulate self-driving shuttle bus provides the services in the park and between high-speed rail station in the future Then use multinomial logit model (MNL) and nested logit model (NL) to calibrate the parameters and establish the mode choice model of two fields A total of 550 valid stated preference samples were obtained in this study “The park shuttle model” show that travel time and travel cost have a significant impact on the mode choice for the people When the fare of self-driving shuttle bus is too high in the future its market share will decline sharply And “The station shuttle model” show that travel time has a significant impact on the mode choice for the people Southern tourists are more looking forward to enjoying the slow shuttle service of self-driving shuttle bus
Date of Award2019
Original languageEnglish
SupervisorOliver Feng-Yeu Shyr (Supervisor)

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