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Has anything changed yet? Insights from Okanagan travel survey
Monday May 26, 2025 10:50am - 11:10am EDT
Desmarais 1130
Rural areas and smaller cities often face unique challenges related to transportation and environmental considerations. In this context, the present study aims to understand mode choice behaviour of smaller cities in Canada which remain underrepresented in the literature. The data comes from the 2018 and 2024 Okanagan Travel Surveys (OTS) conducted in the Central Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada. The study develops a multinomial logit model to test the influence of sociodemographic, mobility tool ownership, built environment and neighborhood attributes on mode choice outcomes. Furthermore, a comparative analysis between the two datasets provides a unique opportunity to assess how mode choice patterns have evolved over time. The findings of the study highlights similarities and dissimilarities in mode choice between the time points, and confirm that such outcomes are sensitive to sociodemographic, vehicle and bike ownership levels, and neighborhood characteristics. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis is conducted to investigate how changes in vehicle and bike ownership, land use mix, and active transportation infrastructure influences the overall mode share. Overall, the findings of the study assist transportation professionals in developing robust policies for effective sustainable transportation planning.
Speakers
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Shivam Khaddar

City of Vernon
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Imrul Kayes Shafie

University of British Columbia, Okanagan
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Mahmudur Fatmi

Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia - Okanagan
Dr. Mahmudur Fatmi is a transportation professor at UBCO. He has started as an assistant professor at UBCO since July 2018. Dr. Fatmi contributes by developing advanced econometric modelling methods and agent-based microsimulation modelling techniques to assist in making effective... Read More →
Monday May 26, 2025 10:50am - 11:10am EDT
Desmarais 1130 55 Laurier Ave E, Ottawa ON K1N 6N5
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