Travel Choice Adaptation Through Information Provision: Insights from Literature Review
This paper aims at providing insights that help transport academics and policy makers appreciate the potentials and limitations of information provision as a travel demand measure to change car-drivers’ travel choices. The focus is on a modal shift from private car to public transport and changes in car-drivers’ choices for departure times and routes towards a more even distribution of traffic within the available road network. These insights are gained through a review of more than 15 years of literature concerning the use and effects of travel information among car-drivers. Based on the performed review, a number of generic, integrative insights is derived, among which the following: it appears that our expectations with respect to the direct effects of information provision on travel choices should be mildly optimistic at best, especially concerning the potential effects on modal split.
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Authors:
- Chorus, Caspar
- Molin, Eric
- van Wee, Bert
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2007-1-21 to 2007-1-25
- Date: 2007
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: CD-ROM
- Features: References;
- Pagination: 21p
- Monograph Title: TRB 86th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers CD-ROM
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Cost estimating; Driver information systems; Literature reviews; Modal split; Mode choice; Perception; Route choice; Transportation policy; Travel behavior; Travel demand
- Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01054568
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 07-0149
- Files: BTRIS, TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Feb 8 2007 4:43PM