Valuation of Driving Comfort for Different Road Types

Verdsetting av kjørekomfort for ulike veityper

The purpose of this project is to provide recommendations regarding how to include the value of driving comfort related to road type in economic appraisal of road projects. This is done by using different values of travel time for different road types, where road types with a high level of driving comfort have a lower value of travel time. There is little existing evidence on this, but the authors have based their recommendations on international literature combined with an analysis of data from the toll road project E18 Arendal–Tvedestrand. Compared to the average value of travel time, the authors recommend using a 20 percent lower value of travel time on for four-lane highways, and a 15 percent higher travel time on two-lane highways without yellow lane marking. The authors emphasise that the estimates are uncertain and recommend more research, including collecting and analysing data on the route choice of car travellers.

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  https://www.toi.no/getfile.php/1353734-1598614409/Publikasjoner/T%C3%98I%20rapporter/2020/1774-2020/1774-2020_Summary.pdf
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  • © 2020 Institute of Transport Economics/Transportøkonomisk Institutt. Report in Norwegian, with summary in English.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Transport Economics (TØI)

  Gaustadalleen 21
  Oslo,   Norway  N-0349

  Norwegian Public Roads Administration

  Trondheim,   Norway 

  Nye Veier AS

  ,   Norway 
• Authors:
  • Flügel, Stefan
  • 0000-0002-3524-2865
  • Halse, Askill H
  • Hartveit, Knut J L
  • Hulleberg, Nina
  • Steinsland, Christian
  • Ukkonen, Aino
• Publication Date: 2020-8

Language

• Norwegian
• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 60p
• Serial:
  • TØI Report
  • Issue Number: 1774/2020
  • Publisher: Institute of Transport Economics (TØI)
  • ISSN: 0808-1190
  • EISSN: 2535-5104
  • Serial URL: https://www.toi.no/publications/category29.html
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Comfort; Roads; Travel time; Valuation
• Geographic Terms: Norway
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01752165
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 97882480202021094
• Report/Paper Numbers: 4879 – Driving comfort
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 17 2020 5:54PM