DAILY VARIATION OF TRIP CHAINING, SCHEDULING, AND PATH SELECTION BEHAVIOR OF WORK COMMUTERS

This study addresses the day-to-day variation of three key aspects of the home to work commute, the time of departure from home, the frequency, purpose and duration of intervening stops between home and work,and the path actually followed through the network. It is based on detailed two-week diaries of actual commuting trips completed by a sample of auto commuters in Austin, Texas. The paper examines alternative definitions and measures of variability in the context of the daily commute by comparing a "day-to-day" approach to a "deviation from usual" approach for defining individual switching behavior. Models are developed to relate observed trip chaining route, and departure time switching patterns to the commuters' characteristics, such as workplace conditions, socio-economic attributes, and network performance characteristics. In addition, the study provides valuable confirmation of insights previously suggested in stated preference laboratory experiments involving actual commuters in a simulated traffic system. (A)

• Corporate Authors:

  Association Quebecoise du Transp et des Routes Inc

  6455 Christophe-Colomb, Suite 300
  Montreal, Quebec H2S 2G5,   Canada 
• Authors:
  • Mahmassani, H S
  • Hatcher, S G
  • CAPLICE, C G
• Conference:
  • LES METHODES D'ANALYSE DES COMPORTEMENTS DE DEPLACEMENTS POUR LES ANNEES 1990 - 6E CONFERENCE INTERNATIONALE SUR LES COMPORTEMENTS DE DEPLACEMENTS, CHATEAU BONNE ENTENTE, QUEBEC, 22, 23, 24 MAI 1991, VOLUME 2
• Publication Date: 1991

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 29-45

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Conferences; Electric switches; Itinerary; Work trips
• ITRD Terms: 9001: Behaviour; 8525: Conference; 699: Itinerary; 621: Journey to work; 6905: Switch
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00674481
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Mar 8 1995 12:00AM