The User Costs of Air Travel Delay Variability
The authors derive the expected user costs of U.S. domestic air travel delay variability taking into account scheduling behavior of travelers. Travelers do not only consider mean arrival delays but also face scheduling costs because they arrive too early or too late at their destination. The model allows travelers to anticipate arrival delay variability by choosing an earlier flight. The authors show that the expected user costs of U.S. air traffic delays are almost doubled if expected schedule delay of travelers is accounted for, whereas the benefits of improvements in mean delay are underestimated by 16% if arrival delay variability is ignored.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Abstracts reprinted with permission of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, http://www.informs.org).
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Authors:
- Koster, Paul
- Pels, Eric
- Verhoef, Erik
- Publication Date: 2016-2
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 120-131
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Serial:
- Transportation Science
- Volume: 50
- Issue Number: 1
- Publisher: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
- ISSN: 0041-1655
- Serial URL: http://transci.journal.informs.org/
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Air travel; Costs; Delays; Domestic transportation; Flight delays; Scheduling; Travel time
- Uncontrolled Terms: User costs
- Geographic Terms: United States
- Subject Areas: Aviation; Finance; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01593482
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Mar 10 2016 4:08PM