• MANSI RUPANI
• DR. L. B. ZALA
• AMIT AMIN

Commuters” travel behavior plays a crucial role in Transportation Planning. Mode choice is all about making a decision about using a particular mode based on priority and purposes. Mode choice varies because of various parameters such as standard of living, travel distance, travel time, travel cost, travel purpose, etc. The present study is all about the recognizing the factors affecting the mode choice decisions of commuters in Vadodara, a city of Gujarat, India. Vadodara is divided into 19 electoral-wards. Household survey was conducted in the city surveying approximately 4200 households for the socio-economic, travel and mode-choice data. Origin-Destination (O-D) trip matrix for different modes were generated with the survey data. The main aim of this study is to look out for the factors that affects the commuters’ mode choice decisions and analyze the data collected through household survey to understand the travel behavior of the commuters. Various factors such as age, gender, trip purpose, etc. plays a vital role in mode selection. These factors are observed and their effects on commuters are resulted.

Mode choice, O-D matrix, Household survey, Travel Behavior.

"MODE CHOICE ANALYSIS IN VADODARA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.212-219, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904P35.pdf

"MODE CHOICE ANALYSIS IN VADODARA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp212-219, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904P35.pdf