Comparison of The pick-up Behavior between New York and Taipei

• Main Authors: Zing-Ying Wu, 吳姿瑩
• Other Authors: Yu-Chun Liao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07673310387183265238

碩士 === 中原大學 === 土木工程研究所 === 100 === 　Today, the non-work travel has been increasing during peak hours, and the growth of the non-work trips increase at the peak greater than at the non-peak.Among the non-work trips, the pick-up link activities along journeys. In addition to the work and school commuting, the pick-up behavior is confined with time and location, and needs to conjunction with other scheduling. Traveling survey data of the United States and Taipei city show high rates of pick-ups for the work and schooling. These thereafter cause traffic problems near the school areas. Nonetheless, the pick-ups to work and school usually occur during the same period daily. This study used the NHTS travel data collected by U.S. Department of Transportation in 2009 and the trip diary surveyed by the Department of Rapid Transit Systems of Taipei City Government in 2009. The analysis results revealed passenger travel demand patterns at different peak periods. The driver participation of the pure pick-ups was higher in Taipei than in New York. In other words, the pick-up trip was hard to chain with other activities. According to this study, the basic properties of pick-up trips in terms of purpose and travel time were shown to highly intertwined with time and location.