Could you also have made this trip by another mode? An investigation of perceived travel possibilities of car and train travellers on the main travel corridors to the city of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

We investigated perceived travel possibilities (or subjective choice-sets, Consideration sets) of car and train traveller on the main corridors to the city of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and association,; With traveller and trip characteristics. We conducted secondary analysis on a survey sample cons still of 71)50 train and 19,232 car travellers. Forty-five percent of train travellers had a cm in their objective choice-set, 27% of them would however revel use it for this trip. Trip destination City centre, trip purpose, paying for the trip, public transport commitment, traffic congestion and parking problems were associated Willi consideration of cat is alternative. Forty-two percent of car travellers had public transport in their subjective choice-set. The ratio between perceived public transport and objective cat travel time, stood out as determinant of consideration-sets, next to destination city centre, trip purpose, travel time and private versus company car ownership Oil average, cat travellers perceptions of public transport travel time exceeded objective values by 46%. We estimated that if perceptions would he more accurate, two Out Of three car travellers that currently do not see public transport as an after native would include it In then-choice-set. and use it from time to time. Ills effect has strong theoretical and policy implications. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.