Notice of RetractionQuantitative analysis of impact of external cost on urban passenger transport structure

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When making trip mode choice, travelers often take account of personal private cost such as travel time and money spent, while no considering external cost consisted of congestion effect or pollutions of air and noise. There is a big difference between the external cost of different travel modes in urban passenger transport, and the neglect of the external cost is to blame for mode imbalance in Chinese urban passenger transport system. Expounding the connotative meaning of urban passenger transport external cost, the effect of internalization of external cost on urban passenger transport is analyzed. Based on the principle of disaggregate model of personal trip mode choice, a modified Logit Model is established and the methods are given to quantitatively calculate the effect of internalization of external cost. In the end, a numerical example is given and discussed. The result shows that the internalization of external cost can result in different proportions of vehicle and bicycle travelers turning to choose public transit.