Incorporating Activity Duration Choice into Time-Dependent Multi-State Supernetworks for Individual Activity-Travel Scheduling

Multi-state supernetworks have been advanced for modeling activity-travel scheduling decisions. One of the advantages of multi-state supernetworks is that they allow checking space-time constraints and modeling multiple choice facets simultaneously within an integrated framework. However, activity duration choice has not been captured in current state-of-the-art multi-state supernetwork models. This paper formulates an extension of multi-state supernetwork models that takes activity duration choice into account. To that end, an activity transaction link with flexible duration is transformed into a time-expanded sub-network that represents the choice space of duration contingent on arrival time. Moreover, choice of waiting is considered. Thus, transaction link costs are explicitly associated and defined in terms of activity chaining, timing and duration. Using this representation, any path through the multi-state supernetwork still represents a consistent activity-travel pattern. A bi-criteria label correcting algorithm based on a broadened dominance relationship is proposed to find the optimal activity-travel schedule.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB40 Transportation Demand Forecasting.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Liao, Feixiong
  • Arentze, Theo
  • Timmermans, Harry
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 17p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Activity choices; Algorithms; Choice models; Scheduling; Time dependence; Time duration; Trip chaining
• Uncontrolled Terms: Multistate network
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01516087
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-1321
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 27 2014 9:05AM