TRAVEL PREFERENCES
A recent paper by David T. Ory and Patricia L. Mokhtarian contains data on individual preferences for train and bus travel. Their study analyzes the characteristics of people who seem to enjoy travel, and under what circumstances. The authors first review the reasons why individuals enjoy travel, and evaluate data from 1,358 commuting residents of three Bay Area neighborhoods. The results indicate that travelers’ attitudes and personality are more important factors than distances and travel times.
Data in the study indicates that many people enjoy riding trains, or at least feel neutral about riding a train, whereas most people do not enjoy riding a bus. Of the 1,358 people in the survey, 966 (71.2%) either liked or were neutral about riding trains, whereas 862 (63.4%) said they disliked riding buses.
See Table 2 (on PDF page 31) of the study below:
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