Editorial

Vít Gabrhel

Transactions on Transport Sciences 2019, 10(1):3-4  

Discrete Choice Analysis of Travel Behaviour

Michal Šimeček

Transactions on Transport Sciences 2019, 10(1):5-9 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2019.001  

The article briefly presents discrete choice analysis as a method to investigate human judgment from an econometric perspective. It focuses on an analysis of the results of a survey on passengers in Slovakia that took place in 2014. The passenger survey addressed 811 respondents who made decisions regarding the choice of transport mode between car, train and bus in stated preference design. In addition, the results of the survey included the values of time in public transportation and for car users. The value of time for car users (3.86 EUR/h) is greater than value of time for public transport passengers (2.98 EUR/h for bus and 2.46 EUR/h for rail...

Valuation of travel time in free-flow and congested traffic and its reliability-estimates for Czech Republic

Vojtěch Máca, Markéta Braun Kohlová

Transactions on Transport Sciences 2019, 10(1):10-18 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2019.007  

A prerequisite for any monetary estimation of economic losses arising from traffic congestion is a reliable estimate of the value of travel time. Although the available evidence from abroad reveals significant differences in the values of individual components of time travel, specific valuations of travel time are rather rare in the Czech Republic. The aim of this paper is to expand the data base in the Czech Republic by presenting selected estimates of the travel time components for Czech drivers and passengers. Specifically, we elaborate on the value of travel time and time spent in congestion for medium-long domestic routes (represented by the Prague-Brno...

Feeling like cycling? Psychological factors related to cycling as a mode choice

Vit Gabrhel

Transactions on Transport Sciences 2019, 10(1):19-30 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2019.006  

Despite the undeniable benefits of cycling, this mode of transport is still somewhat underdeveloped in many European countries such as in the Czech Republic. The limited number of trips by bike may be explained by the objective factors, like the natural environment inconvenient for cycling. However, objective factors play the role only to some degree. There are also subjective or psychological factors associated with choosing a mode of transport. This study focuses on the perceptions and attitudes related to riding a bicycle. The data was collected through a survey in the Czech municipality Litoměřice, as a part of Litoměřice's sustainable urban mobility...

Attitudes of inhabitants living in the vicinity of railroads on the matter of trespassing on the railway

Pavlína Skládaná, Pavel Skládaný, Pavel Tučka

Transactions on Transport Sciences 2019, 10(1):31-40 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2019.010  

Trespassing on the railway is a very frequent behavior in the Czech Republic, resulting in approximately 200 deaths annually caused by train-person collisions. This paper studies the attitudes of citizens living near railways and in the immediate vicinity of one of the many illegal shortcuts. The objective of the survey was primarily to acquire information about factors contributing to decisions by various groups of residents to use or not to use an illegal shortcut. This information may be taken as a basis for implementing preventive measures, and in particular those of an awareness-raising character. The survey involved a total of 619 standardized...

Factors contributing on mobile phone use while driving: In-depth accident analysis

Bucsuházy Kateřina, Matuchová Eva, Zůvala Robert, Moravcová Pavlína, Kostíková Martina, Mikulec Roman

Transactions on Transport Sciences 2019, 10(1):41-49 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2019.008  

The consequences of using and manipulating with a mobile phone while driving has a large negative effect on attention. Driver inattention is the major problem in road safety and generally belongs to the main causes of traffic accidents with a higher representation of rear impact and has been considered as a societal safety issue. Nowadays, distraction during driving has been very often connected with using a mobile phone. The aim of this study has been the analysis of using a mobile phone by accident participants during normal driving. For the purpose of this study, unique data about accident participants collected by Czech In-depth accident study...

Visual Analysis of Vehicle Trajectories for Determining Cross-Sectional Load Density

Roman Juránek, Jakub Špaňhel, Jakub Sochor, Adam Herout, Jan Novák

Transactions on Transport Sciences 2019, 10(1):50-57 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2019.002  

The goal of this work was to analyze the behavior of drivers on third class roads with and without horizontal lane marking. The roads have low traffic volume, and therefore a conventional short-term study would not be able to provide enough data. We used recording devices for long-term (weeks) recording of the traffic and designed a system for analyzing the trajectories of the vehicles by means of computer vision. We collected a dataset at 6 distinct locations, containing 1 010 hours of day-time video. In this dataset, we tracked over 12 000 cars and analyzed their trajectories. The results show that the selected approach is functional and provides...