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“Transportation for A Better Life:
Smart Mobility for Now and Then”

23 August 2019, Bangkok, Thailand

The Study of Travel Mode Choice among Basic Education School Students in
Metro Manila
Topic number: 08 Paper Identification number: AYRF2019-006
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Monorom RITH , Alexis M. FILLONE , Jose Bienvenido M. BIONA

1 Doctoral student, Mechanical Engineering Department, Gokongwei College of Engineering
De La Salle University

2 Research and Innovation Center, Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Russian Conf, Norodom Blvd,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Telephone: (+63) 966 480 9818
Email: rith_monorom@dlsu.edu.ph

3 Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Gokongwei College of Engineering
De La Salle University
Telephone : (+63) 939 934 3195
Email: alexis.fillone@dlsu.edu.ph

4 Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Gokongwei College of Engineering
De La Salle University
Telephone : (+63) 998 993 9398
Email: jose.bienvenido.biona@dlsu.edu.ph

Abstract
The study of travel mode choice among basic education (K-12) school students has remained
unexplored mainly in Metro Manila. This study intends to explore the determinants of travel mode choices
(i.e., non-motorized, public, and private) by taking account of socioeconomic characteristics and urban form
attributes. Based on the Person product moment correlation coefficients, only household income, a number
of commuters, and commuting distance from home to school had moderate correlations with the dependent
variables. The probability of travel mode choice conditional on the three independent variables was
calculated. It highlighted that the probability of non-motorized mode decreased with an increase in household
income, and it could be replaced by public and private modes. The probability of private mode would sharply
increase if the number of commuters increased from two to four. The probability of non-motorized mode
conditional on travel distance less than 1 km was 82.41%, and this probability would extremely decline to
about 29% if the distance were longer than 1 km. The multinomial logit model was applied the develop the
travel mode choice model, and the results were highly comparable with the those of the Person product
moment correlation approach.

Keywords: Travel mode choice, School student, Conditional probability, Metro Manila

1. Introduction public transport trips (Jeepneys and Buses) fell by
The Philippines experiences an average 7% [3]. Car trips were responsible for 71.30% in
annual economic growth of 6.8% in the last three terms of vehicles in 2014 [3]. The projected growth
years [1], while the country’s national capital region, of private car usage is expected to saturate the roads
Metro Manila, suffers heavy traffic congestion [2]. and reduce the effectiveness of the vehicular volume
Roughly 50% of the roads operate at reduction scheme [4, 5].
volume/capacity (V/C) ratios over 0.80 in the A handful of the existing literature has been
metropolis [3]. Average travel time of one person conducted to address the issues stated earlier in
trip was projected to double from 1.17 h in 2014 up Metro Manila. An increase in gas price is a
to 1.33 h in 2030 for the baseline scenario [3]. From conventional way to demotivate private vehicle
1996 to 2012, car trips increased by 15%, while usage [6, 7]. Other proposed solutions, including an

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