Towards a better understanding of the determinants and satisfaction of travel among different groups in major Canadian Cities.

在一个快速变化的世界中，理解、衡量和模拟积极交通(公共交通、骑自行车和步行)的决定因素和好处是从业者面临的最大挑战之一。我的计划的长期目标是继续产生有价值的研究，支持采用可持续的交通方式，以提高个人的生活质量。我们之前的研究已被加拿大许多交通机构(Metrolinx-Toronto、Sociétéde Transport de Montréal(STM)-蒙特利尔、Translink-Vancouver)以及国外的布鲁金斯学会(华盛顿特区)和运输与发展政策研究所(ITDP)采用。我的新NSERC-DISCOVERY项目建立在我之前生成可实施研究的记录的基础上，它包括5个项目，这些项目将支持和培训学生，目标是使他们在快速变化的就业市场中具有竞争力。第一个项目包括为活跃的交通工具制定可达性衡量标准，以更好地模拟土地使用和交通相互作用及其对模式选择的影响。第二个项目是评估STM公共交通营运的改善，即电动巴士和下一个到达系统对公共交通营运和顾客满意度的影响。第三个项目在地理上评估活跃的交通工具使用者的出行满意度，同时控制个人的态度和习惯，以实现更高的乘车保留率。第四个项目旨在更好地了解汽车用户的行为和动机，以便为公交机构制定和推荐策略，以吸引他们并获得更大的市场份额。它还将寻求了解促使交通工具使用者停止使用交通工具的因素。第五个项目旨在找出旅游调查中的偏差，以便更好地模拟旅游行为。预计拟议的研究计划将在交通领域产生各种影响。首先，通过每年资助三名博士和两名硕士学生，它将加强我培养高素质人才的努力，为他们提供足够的资金，使他们能够专注于学习和研究。这种方法在我以前的学生中取得了成功，因为它帮助他们在加拿大各地的各种运输公司找到了工作，甚至在毕业后创办了自己的运输公司。其次，本研究议程试图回答几个研究问题，这些问题不仅对交通研究人员很重要，而且对加拿大的从业者(工程师和规划者)来说也非常重要，因为他们正在努力为加拿大人提供更好的交通系统。与我之前的NSERC计划类似，我们将通过会议和研讨会向当地、国家和国际团体传播结果，并在不侵犯任何版权的情况下，通过在我们的网站上公开和访问我们的所有研究成果。

In a fast-changing world, understanding, measuring, and modelling the determinants and benefits of active transport (public transport, cycling and walking) is one of the biggest challenges faced by practitioners. The long-term goal of my program is to continue to generate valuable research that will support the uptake of sustainable transport modes to increase the quality of life of individuals. Our previous research has been adopted by many transport agencies in Canada (Metrolinx - Toronto, Société de Transport de Montréal (STM)- Montreal, Translink - Vancouver) and abroad by the Brookings Institution (Washington, DC) and the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy: ITDP. My new NSERC-discovery program builds on my previous record of generating ready-to-implement research, it includes 5 projects that will support and train students with the goal of making them competitive in a fast-changing job market. The first project consists of developing accessibility measures for active transport modes to better model land use and transport interactions, and their effect on mode choice. The second project assesses the impacts of improvements in STM's public transport operations, namely electric buses and next arrival system on public transport operations and customer satisfaction. The third project geographically assesses trip satisfaction among active transport users while controlling for personal attitudes and habits to achieve higher ridership retention. The fourth project seeks to better understand the behavior and motivations of car users to develop and recommend strategies for transit agencies to attract them and gain a bigger market share. It will also seek to understand the factors that motivate transit users to stop using transit. The fifth project aims to identify biases in travel survey, to better model travel behavior. The proposed research program is expected to have various impacts in the transport field. Firstly, by annually funding three PhD and two masters' students, it will strengthen my efforts towards training highly qualified personal, by providing adequate funding for them so they can concentrate on learning and research. Such approach has been successful with my former students, as it helped them in securing jobs at various transport firms across Canada or even start their own transport firm after graduation. Secondly, this research agenda attempts to answer several research questions that are not only important for transport researchers, but are of utmost importance to practitioners in Canada (Engineers and Planners) as they are striving to provide better transport systems to Canadians. Similar to my previous NSERC program, we will be disseminating the results to local, national, and international groups through conferences and workshops, as well as through making all of our research open and accessible on our website, without violating any copy rights.