A Study on Travel Choices of College Aged Students

College going students generally neglected for transportation studies whose campus lies in the rural areas. But the fact is, college going students contribute highly towards overall traffic generation in the area. The study will be effective to know the travel behaviour and will be beneficial for development and planning initiatory which will contribute into achievement of sustainable and safer transport system. A case study involving more than 800 college students of Panipat institute of engineering and technology was carried out. Students were encouraged to take part in the survey and to give their views about mode choice and factors responsible for choosing mode. Safety concerns are more likely to affect travel choices as well as other factors such as gender, age, distance. We try to identify other factors also such as family status and department in which students are studying in the college. In our study, numerous students were motivated to take part in the survey and we observe that 60% travel through college bus, 19 % through cars, 10 % walk to the college, 8% travel through motor bikes and rest through other modes travel to colleges. Choices for trips different from colleges were also studied such as trips to picnic, trips to the market or other recreational areas. Apart from this multinomial logit model (MNL model) model is also prepared taking various parameters which affects the overall mode choice of college students.