Public Transport Mode Choice and its Determinants: The case of Megenagna-Ayat Corridor in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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2018-05
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Transportation in today’s world is the backbone of development for many countries. This is true,
especially in urban cities. In fact, life is becoming impossible without transportation services.
Provided all the positive outcomes transportation has to nations, it also impacts the environment
and quality of life negatively if it is not planned and managed well. There are many means of
transport available today containing a variety of trip purposes. Public transport is one of the most
important parts of the transport system. Considering the positive effect on the environment and
congestion public transport is considered the best means from land transport. In developing
countries like Ethiopia, people’s movements are highly dependent on public transport.
This study tries to analyze mode share among four major modes of public transport (i.e. Minibus,
Higer bus, Anbessa bus and LRT) giving service in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia a study area from
Megenagna to Ayat. It also identifies the most abandoned mode of transport. Accordingly, Minibus
was the highest preferred mode while Anbessa bus was found to be the mode most individuals
don’t want to use.
Using a survey sample of 391, MNL model is used to analyze travelers’ mode choice behavior. A
statistical package, Stata 14, was used to develop the model. Based on the result; sex (with
significance of 10% for Anbessa bus and 5% for LRT), monthly individual income (with
significance of 1% for Higre bus and 5% for both Anbessa bus and LRT), daily trip frequency
(with a significance of 1% for Higer bus and LRT), travel time, access time, waiting time and cost
by distance (with significance level of 1% of the later four variables) were found to affect mode
choice of public transport. Policy implications like subsidize Anbessa buses, improve its comfort
and security and increase spatial expansion are drawn in order to increase use of large size public
transports.
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Transportation, public transport, Mode choice, MNL