R: Travel Mode Choice Data

TravelMode {AER} | R Documentation

## Travel Mode Choice Data

### Description

Data on travel mode choice for travel between Sydney and Melbourne, Australia.

### Usage

    data("TravelMode")

### Format

A data frame containing 840 observations on 4 modes for 210 individuals.

individual

  Factor indicating individual with levels `1` to `200`.

mode

  Factor indicating travel mode with levels `"car"`, `"air"`, `"train"`, or `"bus"`.

choice

  Factor indicating choice with levels `"no"` and `"yes"`.

wait

  Terminal waiting time, 0 for car.

vcost

  Vehicle cost component.

travel

  Travel time in the vehicle.

gcost

  Generalized cost measure.

income

  Household income.

size

  Party size.

### Source

Online complements to Greene (2003).

http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~wgreene/Text/tables/tablelist5.htm

### References

Greene, W.H. (2003). Econometric Analysis, 5th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

### See Also

`Greene2003`

### Examples

    data("TravelMode")

    ## overall proportions for chosen mode
    with(TravelMode, prop.table(table(mode[choice == "yes"])))

    ## travel vs. waiting time for different travel modes
    library("lattice")
    xyplot(travel ~ wait | mode, data = TravelMode)

    ## Greene (2003), Table 21.11, conditional logit model
    if(require("mlogit")) {
    TravelMode$incair <- with(TravelMode, income * (mode == "air"))
    tm_cl <- mlogit(choice ~ gcost + wait + incair, data = TravelMode,
      shape = "long", alt.var = "mode", reflevel = "car")
    summary(tm_cl)
    }

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