For countries which are less developed(developing countries), urban traffic has a small kind of transport modes(that means, most transport mode alternatives are not too much saturated in the city).
In such a case, mode choice will not be a willingness based rather it is obligatory based.
so, is it realistic to do transport mode choice model in urban traffic of developing countries?
I think the answer to this question is undoubtly yes. Indeed, mode choice models are not only used in the context of congestion (or other constrained situations). Let's take a simple example : living in a small, uncongested city, a citizen can reach his workplace by bike or by bus. The choice between these two alternatives can depend on variables such as cost, weather conditions, ... The level of congestion doesn't play any role her.
The answer is yes. Trip makers in both developed and developing countries makes their modal choices as to weather to use or not to use any of these available modes ( walk, bike, car, bus, train and etc.). It important to note that, people makes their modal choices to suit the activities they want to participate. In order words, activity is primary and travel is secondary. So, modal choice model could be used in both developed and developing countries, to solve the problems of traffic congestions pollutions and emissions. Therefore, it realistic to use transport mode choice model in a small city of developing countries for transportaction planning.
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Thank you.
If that is so, what kind of sampling techniques we have to use in route- corridor based study.
Can we get the representative sample for the whole population by asking the users randomly at origin and destination places?
Be aware not to mix several concepts. The way you set-up your sample and the modal choice model are two different things.
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