A CHOICE MODEL ON TRIP MODE CHAIN FOR INTER-ISLANDS COMMUTERS IN NORTH MOLUCCA-INDONESIA: A CASE STUDY OF THE TERNATE ISLAND – HALMAHERA ISLAND TRIP

The commuter trip is a major trip in a daily activity-travel of people from an origin place to a destination place. According to the place of the occurred trip, the commuter trip is occurring not only in urban and or sub-urban area, but also the trip is occurring in inter-island trip. One of the important travel behavior aspects in urban commuter travel is the commuter's behavior on their mode choice. Many previous studies have focused on travel model choice model for commuters in urban area, particularly in developing countries such in Indonesia. In this regard, Ramli et all (2010) have described the mode travel choice model of commuters in Makassar City, Indonesia for a daily household logistic trip purpose, as well as, the choice behavior of a commuter trip for shopping trip in the city (Ramli et all, 2011; 2013). In addition, Nur et all (2016) has constructed for travel behavior of commuters in using public transit mode in Makassar City. These previous studies spent attention on mode choice for a single travel mode assumption.