Measuring Motorists’ Choice Behaviour and Responses to Long-Term Changes in Transport Conditions.

This paper reports on the Gnding from an in-depth survey into the choice of travel mode by a small group of respondents in Nottingham. The purpose of this study was to identify the range of factors which affect current choice of travel mode and to develop a survey method which lead to better observation and predictions of future travel choice decisions under worsening conditions for car travel or improving conditions for public transport. The first section of the paper describes the background to the project. Section 2 describes the rationale and features of the survey method used in the study. Section 3 outlines the survey design. Section 4 discusses the findings from the survey and discusses the policy relevance of the findings. Section 5 discusses the implications of the work for the design of larger stated preference and revealed preference surveys.