Departure Time Choice in Schedule-Based Transit Assignment

This paper investigates existing departure time models for a schedule-based transit assignment and their parametrization. It analyzes the impact of the temporal resolution of travel demand and suggests functions for evaluating the adaptation time as part of the utility of a path. The adaptation time quantifies the time between the preferred and the scheduled departure times. The findings of the analysis suggested that travel demand should be discretized into intervals of 1 min, with interval borders right between the full minute, that is, ±0.5?min. It was shown that longer time intervals led to arbitrary run volumes, even for origin–destination pairs with just one transit line and a fixed headway. Although a linear relationship between adaptation time and adaptation disutility is a common assumption in several publications, it cannot represent certain types of passenger behavior. For some trip purposes, passengers may be insensitive to small adaptation times, but highly sensitive to large adaptations. This requires a nonlinear evaluation function.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981211033858
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Markus Friedrich https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0225-025X © National Academy of Sciences: Transportation Research Board 2021.
• Authors:
  • Friedrich, Markus
  • 0000-0003-0225-025X
  • Schmaus, Matthias
  • 0000-0002-5126-4466
  • Sauer, Jonas
  • Zündorf, Tobias
• Publication Date: 2021-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 1345-1355
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Volume: 2675
  • Issue Number: 12
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0361-1981
  • EISSN: 2169-4052
  • Serial URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/trr

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Choice models; Departure time; Mathematical models; Psychological adaptation; Public transit; Schedules and scheduling; Travel demand
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01764103
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: TRBAM-21-01406
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 4 2021 11:00AM