Agent-Based Simulation of Children’s School Travel Mode with Parental Escort Decisions
In the last few years, the number of private cars has expanding quickly in China, more and more parents use cars to escort their children to school, thus cause serious traffic congestions near school in many cities. In this paper, we developed an agent-based model (ABM) of the parents’ choice of esc...
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| description | In the last few years, the number of private cars has expanding quickly in China, more and more parents use cars to escort their children to school, thus cause serious traffic congestions near school in many cities. In this paper, we developed an agent-based model (ABM) of the parents’ choice of escort mode. The core of this model is an escort mode choice motivation adjustment function that combines distance, traffic safety and social influence. We also used ABM to exhibit the emergent decoy effect phenomenon, which is a dynamic phenomenon that the introduction of a decoy to the choice-set could increase the share of other alternatives. The model reveals the parents’ inner psychological mechanism when facing competing escort mode choice in transportation system. The simulation results show that the proportion of parents to choose bus escort was 62.45% without the decoy effect was introduced, while the proportion of parents to choose bus escort increased to 74.29% with the decoy effect was entry. The use of the ABM method gives the potential to cope with the dynamic changes in studying parent escort mode choice behavior. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9984c040314a48e2a06c7b238359fe082022-12-22T02:08:44ZengMDPI AGInformation2078-24892018-02-01935010.3390/info9030050info9030050Agent-Based Simulation of Children’s School Travel Mode with Parental Escort DecisionsPeng Jing0Qingku You1Long Chen2School of Automotive and Traffic Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, ChinaSchool of Automotive and Traffic Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, ChinaSchool of Automotive and Traffic Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, ChinaIn the last few years, the number of private cars has expanding quickly in China, more and more parents use cars to escort their children to school, thus cause serious traffic congestions near school in many cities. In this paper, we developed an agent-based model (ABM) of the parents’ choice of escort mode. The core of this model is an escort mode choice motivation adjustment function that combines distance, traffic safety and social influence. We also used ABM to exhibit the emergent decoy effect phenomenon, which is a dynamic phenomenon that the introduction of a decoy to the choice-set could increase the share of other alternatives. The model reveals the parents’ inner psychological mechanism when facing competing escort mode choice in transportation system. The simulation results show that the proportion of parents to choose bus escort was 62.45% without the decoy effect was introduced, while the proportion of parents to choose bus escort increased to 74.29% with the decoy effect was entry. The use of the ABM method gives the potential to cope with the dynamic changes in studying parent escort mode choice behavior.http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/9/3/50agent-based modelchildrenparental escort decisionschool travel modedecoy effect |
| spellingShingle | Peng Jing Qingku You Long Chen Agent-Based Simulation of Children’s School Travel Mode with Parental Escort Decisions Information agent-based model children parental escort decision school travel mode decoy effect |
| title | Agent-Based Simulation of Children’s School Travel Mode with Parental Escort Decisions |
| title_full | Agent-Based Simulation of Children’s School Travel Mode with Parental Escort Decisions |
| title_fullStr | Agent-Based Simulation of Children’s School Travel Mode with Parental Escort Decisions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agent-Based Simulation of Children’s School Travel Mode with Parental Escort Decisions |
| title_short | Agent-Based Simulation of Children’s School Travel Mode with Parental Escort Decisions |
| title_sort | agent based simulation of children s school travel mode with parental escort decisions |
| topic | agent-based model children parental escort decision school travel mode decoy effect |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/9/3/50 |
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