THE VALUE OF TIME FOR PASSENGER CARS'A BEHAVIORAL STUDY OF DRIVER ROUTE CHOICE

DRIVER ROUTE CHOICE IS PREDICTED AND EXPLAINED. DRIVERS ARE ASSUMED TO CONSIDER THE VARIABLES THAT ARE RELEVANT TO HIS CHOICE SEQUENTIALLY, RATHER THAN ATTEMPTING TO EVALUATE THEM SIMULTANEOUSLY. DATA WERE OBTAINED ON 171 EMPLOYEES OF THE STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUE FOR SUCH ITEMS AS TRAVEL TIME , DISTANCE, NUMBER OF TURNS, STOPS, TRAFFIC SIGNALS, INCLUDING ACTUAL DRIVING OF THE ROUTES. CONCLUSIONS' /1/ ROUTE CHOICE WAS NOT INFLUENCED BY RELATIVE DISTANCE, INDEPENDENT OF TIME, /2/ STOP AND GO TRAVEL TIME IS EVALUATED DIFFERENTLY FROM CONSTANT SPEED TIME, /3/ DRIVERS DO CONSCIOUSLY VARY THEIR ROUTES ON WORK TRIPS, MEN MORE SO THAN WOMEN, AND /4/ TRAVEL TIME TO AND FROM WORK WAS OVERESTIMATED BY 2.54 MINUTES AND THE DISTANCE WAS UNDERESTIMATED BY 0.19 MILES.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Bpr Adm ConTRACT, CPR 11-8028
• Corporate Authors:

  Stanford Research Institute

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• Authors:
  • FOX, P D
• Publication Date: 1965-5

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Distance; Drivers; Human characteristics; Interviewing; Present value; Route choice; Stopping; Traffic signals; Travel time; Turning traffic
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver characteristics; Turning movements; Value
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00222547
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bureau of Public Roads /US
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 1 1994 12:00AM