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:
  • Travel time
  • Route choice
  • Reliability (Statistics)
  • Traffic congestion
  • Traffic flow
  • Travel time (Traffic engineering)
  • Traffic congestion
• 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.
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  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/23382/dot_23382_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 6.00 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
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