Transportation demand analysis and surveys in Metro Manila are focusing on work trips and none so far have studied non-work trips, specifically weekend and holiday trips. Utilizing 6,988 sample respondents representing the whole of Metro Manila and its surrounding regions: parts of Bulacan, Rizal, Cavite and Laguna, the trips selected for this study are the trips for non-work activities during holidays or weekend. Trip purpose, travel mode, and other variables are analyzed according to frequencies, percentages, correlation and cross-tabulations. Comparison of data of the weekend demand with the weekday demand is also undertaken. The comparison serves as the comparison of the modal share of the demand, parking volumes, and other aspects of the weekend and weekday daily traffic. In its attempt to determine the factors that affect trip behavior generation, all socioeconomic, trip characteristics and origin variables are specified into the model and fitting iterations are performed to eliminate insignificant variables. Being exploratory in nature, the study presents the descriptive analysis of the demand and determines the factors affecting the trip demand. It also presents a comparative description on the behaviors for weekend and holiday trips and that of the usual work trips or weekday trips. The information made available from this study can be used for many transportation-planning exercises.
