Print Email Facebook Twitter A classification of the long-distance travel market Title A classification of the long-distance travel market Author van Goeverden, C.D. (TU Delft Transport and Planning) van Nes, R. (TU Delft Transport and Planning) van Arem, B. (TU Delft Transport and Planning) Contributor Witlox, Frank (editor) Date 2019 Abstract Long-distance travel contributes significantly to climate change. One of the mitigation options is a shift to more sustainable modes. An efficient policy on modal choice demands knowledge on which market segments are promising for a mode. The paper describes a method for breaking down the travel market into segments that are homogeneous with respect to the appropriateness of a mode for the travellers; the method is applied to all typical long-distance modes. The appropriateness of a mode depends on the demanded standards and the extent the standards of a mode meets the demand. A number of variables that define the appropriateness are identified, and by crossing the most important variables a large number of small, elementary market segments are defined. These are building stones for the mode-specific larger segments with a certain standard of a mode. Based on the explanatory power of a variable for modal choice and the standard of a mode for journeys in the variable category, a standard score of each mode is calculated for each elementary segment. Segments where the score of a mode compared to the score of the best performing alternative is similar (that is: within defined limits) are clustered into one of five segments with a certain standard of the mode. Some results: the proportion of long-distance journeys where a mode has at least a comparable standard is 79% for the car, 60% for the train, and 30% for the airplane. Expressed in mileage, the proportions are 40%, 33%, and 75% respectively. Subject market segmentlong-distance travelWestern Europemodal standard To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:225a87e3-2aab-4b22-add5-a8e542debd86 Embargo date 2020-05-24 Source Moving towards more sustainable mobility and transport through smart systems: Proceedings of the BIVEC-GIBET Transport Research Days 2019 Event BIVEC-GIBET Transport Research Days 2019, 2019-05-23 → 2019-05-24, Ghent, Belgium Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2019 C.D. van Goeverden, R. van Nes, B. van Arem Files PDF Breakdown_LD_travel_market.pdf 1.06 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:225a87e3-2aab-4b22-add5-a8e542debd86/datastream/OBJ/view