DYNAMICS OF COMMUTING DECISION BEHAVIOR UNDER ADVANCED TRAVELER INFORMATION SYSTEMS

This paper addresses departure time and route switching decisions made by commuters in response to Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS). It is based on the data collected from an experiment using a dynamic interactive travel simulator for laboratory studies of user responses under real-time information. The experiment involves actual commuters who simultaneously interact with each other within a simulated traffic corridor that consists of alternative travel facilities with differing characteristics. These commuters can determine their departure time and route at the origin and their path en-route at various decision nodes along their trip. A multinomial probit model framework is used to capture the serial correlation arising from repeated decisions made by the same respondent. The resulting behavioral model estimates support the notion that commuters' route switching decisions are predicated on the expectation of an improvement in trip time that exceeds a certain threshold (indifference band), which varies systematically with the remaining trip time to the destination, subject to a minimum absolute improvement (about 1 minute).

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• Authors:
  • Mahmassani, H S
  • Liu, Y-H
• Publication Date: 1999-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 91-107
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0968-090X
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0968090X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traveler information systems; Commuting; Decision making; Route choice; Simulation; Travel time
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Society; I71: Traffic Theory;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00769321
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 29 1999 12:00AM