Trip Generating Factors

A significant surge in patronage of urban rail services in Australia over the last 5 to 10 years has highlighted gaps in a comprehensive understanding of the link between demand for travel by rail and external and internal factors.

Traditional approaches have provided some insights into the relationship between urban rail patronage and some of these factors. However, they do not fully explain recent trends and some current issues such as commercialised models, transit-oriented development, urban redevelopment, and peak spreading are much less well understood.

The project is a scoping study designed to provide an appraisal of  the current understanding of urban rail trip generation factors and how these factors interact, identification of gaps in the current knowledge and an indication of the form and nature of research needed to fill current knowledge gaps. By filling the gaps in current knowledge a better understanding of a complex number of external and internal factors that influence traveller decision-making will provide a superior basis for urban rail system planning and development

The analysis seeks to discover what make rail systems perform successfully and what hinder their success, it provides policy guidance for planners and urban rail operators for future urban rail development and management as well as urban planning.