PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE AND USER RESPONSE TO ATIS PRODUCTS AND SERVICES : THE USE OF TRAVEL SIMULATORS TO INVESTIGATE THE RESPONSE TO TRAFFIC INFORMATION

This report presents a review of existing travel simulators and ongoing data collection and modeling efforts using these simulators. It begins with general background information on simulators highlights the advantages and disadvantages of using simulators to investigate travelers' behavior, and establishes the basis of evaluation of existing travel simulators. The next section reviews the most recent literature on travel simulators and discusses major findings on data collected by the simulators and associated model development. This is followed by a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the developed simulators and ans assessment of travel simulators.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: 1993 Published By: U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Research and Special Programs Administration Washington DC
• Corporate Authors:

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Department of Civil Engineering, 77 Massachusetts Avenue
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02139

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Policy Development, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Volpe National Transportation Systems Center

  Cambridge, MA  United States  02142
• Authors:
  • Koutsopoulos, Haris
  • Polydoropoulou, Amalia
  • Ben-Akiva, Moshe
• Publication Date: 1993

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: iv, 90 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traveler information systems; Driving simulators; Marketing
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00775230
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: PATH, USDOT
• Created Date: Nov 17 1999 12:00AM