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Semarang City is the center of the economic activities of the province of Central Java and as a business center and trade center which includes national strategic areas. As we know that, Semarang city is located between 2 (two) large cities, namely Jakarta and Surabaya. Thus, the city of Semarang has quite large and strong access to regional economic growth. Semarang as a business center that is connected with other cities. Surabaya is one of them. Surabaya-Semarang is an important route because it connects two provincial capitals. To anticipate high passenger growth, support from the transportation sector is urgently needed. This research was conducted in order to see the characteristics of railroad mode assumption, assuming trains operate with travel time service faster than conventional trains in the Surabaya-Semarang corridor. The research method uses stated preference and binomial binary logit with attributes of travel time and travel costs. We believe that the attributes that affect conventional trains respondents in choosing the mode between the conventional trains and the Surabaya-Semarang corridor fast train are travel time and travel costs so that it will have a negative impact on the growth of conventional railway passengers.