Valuation of travel time
After decades of study, the value of travel time remains incompletely understood and ripe for further theoretical and empirical investigation. Research has revealed many regularities and connections between willingness to pay for time savings and other economic factors including time of day choice, aversion to unreliability, labor supply, taxation, activity scheduling, intra-household time allocation, and out-of-office productivity. Some of these connections have been addressed through sophisticated modeling, revealing a plethora of reasons for heterogeneity in value of time rooted in behavior at a micro scale. This paper reviews what we know and what we need to know. A recurrent theme is that the value of time for a particular travel movement depends strongly on very specific factors, and that understanding how these factors work will provide new insights into travel behavior and into more general economic choices.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
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Authors:
- Small, Kenneth A
- Publication Date: 2012-12
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References;
- Pagination: pp. 2-14
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Serial:
- Economics of Transportation
- Volume: 1
- Issue Number: 1-2
- Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishers BV
- ISSN: 2212-0122
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/22120122
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Economic and social factors; Heterogeneity; Periods of the day; Reliability; Travel behavior; Travel demand; Travel time; Valuation; Value of time
- Subject Areas: Economics; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01470922
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jan 30 2013 9:02AM