Value of travel-time reliability : commuters’ route-choice behavior in the Twin Cities.

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• Creators:
  Carrion-Madera, Carlos ; Levinson, David ; Harder, Kathleen
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Minnesota. Dept. of Civil Engineering ; University of Minnesota
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Reliability (Statistics) Route Choice Traffic Congestion Traffic Flow Travel Time Travel Time (Traffic Engineering)
• Publication/ Report Number:
  OTREC-RR-11-21
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Minnesota
• Corporate Publisher:
  Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium
• Abstract:
  Travel-time variability is a noteworthy factor in network performance. It measures the temporal uncertainty experienced by users in their
  
  movement between any two nodes in a network. The importance of the time variance depends on the penalties incurred by the users. In road
  
  networks, travelers consider the existence of this journey uncertainty in their selection of routes. This choice process takes into account
  
  travel-time variability and other characteristics of the travelers and the road network. In this complex behavioral response, a feasible decision is
  
  spawned based on not only the amalgamation of attributes, but also on the experience travelers incurred from previous situations. Over the past
  
  several years, the analysis of these behavioral responses (travelers’ route choices) to fluctuations in travel-time variability has become a central
  
  topic in transportation research. These have generally been based on theoretical approaches built upon Wardropian equilibrium, or empirical
  
  formulations using Random Utility Theory. This report focuses on the travel behavior of commuters using Interstate 394 (I-394) and the
  
  swapping (bridge) choice behavior of commuters crossing the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. The inferences of this report are based on
  
  collected Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking data and accompanying surveys. Furthermore, it also employs two distinct approaches
  
  (estimation of Value of Reliability [VOR] and econometric modeling with travelers’ intrapersonal data) in order to analyze the behavioral
  
  responses of two distinct sets of subjects in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul (Twin Cities) area.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers US Transportation Collection
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  urn:sha256:e371acf6db152979a55f4075f4a12273bd94ee5fafabadb9da1fb4905add0581
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  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/23382/dot_23382_DS1.pdf
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