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
if(require("lattice")) {
  xyplot(travel ~ wait | mode, data = TravelMode)
}

[Package AER version 0.9-0 Index]