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Should we abandon activity type analysis? Redefining activities by their salient attributes 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Sean T. Doherty 《Transportation》2006,33(6):517-536
This paper poses a challenge and begins a search. The challenge is to reconsider the usefulness of traditional activity types (“work”, “shopping”, etc.) in the understanding and modelling of travel behaviour. The search is for the more salient attributes of activities that may serve to better explain complex travel behaviours—such as activity scheduling and tour formation. In particular, this paper focuses on explicit measures of the spatial, temporal and interpersonal flexibility of activities, along with several traditional attributes (frequency, duration, involved persons, travel time, and location). Data from a recent in-depth week-long activity scheduling survey was used to define and compare these attributes. Results show that considerable variability in the attributes between and within traditional activity groups is evident. This casts considerable uncertainty on assumptions that statically assign levels of spatial, temporal, and interpersonal flexibility to any given activity type. A Principal Components Analysis further revealed eight new distinct clusters of activities that share like attributes. The relative role of each attribute in each component is examined, and subjective interpretations emerged (e.g., “Long and frequent”, “Space and time flexible” “Social networking”). The implications of these results for future model development and research are discussed. Future research should continue to expand the search for salient attributes and link them more directly to decision processes. 相似文献
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P. B. Goodwin 《Transportation》1974,3(1):1-23
The generalised time expenditure on travel,g
t, may be defined asg
t =t +m/λ where t is the amount of time spent, m is the amount of money spent, and λ is the value of time. Generalised time is expressed
in units of time, unlikeg
c, the generalised cost (g
c =m + λt), which measures the same quantities in units of money.
Data on all trips from two studies are analysed to show that, as household income increases, the money spent per mile travelled
increases, but the time spent per mile decreases. The use of generalised time gives a different picture of the relationship
between income and the total time and money spent on travel to that given by the use of generalised cost. The choice between
using generalised time and generalised cost in evaluation is fundamentally a choice between assuming that the marginal utility
of time and that of money is constant. The procedures at present recommended by the Department of the Environment in U.K.
have elements of both assumptions, with some loss of consistency.
There are some a priori reasons for expecting constant marginal utility of time to be a more plausible assumption than constant
marginal utility of money. Time is, by its nature, equitably and unalterably distributed, not subject to the accidents of
inheritance, theft, chance, inflation, social system or government decree. Everybody starts off with 24 hours a day. Although
the amount of “free” time varies, of course, it probably varies within a much smaller range than the amount of wealth, certainly
for the employed population. In allocating time between various activities, the use of words likespend, save, waste, lose, gain, and so on is a reflection of how deeply rooted in language and thought is the concept of time as a fundamental currency.
This approach is strengthened by recent developments in two areas where generalised cost has been found to be a useful tool
of analysis — (a) in explaining and predicting the behaviour of travellers, and (b) in evaluating the social costs and benefits
arising from transport projects. Only non-working time will be considered here. It is suggested that in some circumstances
generalised time would allowbehaviourally correct relationships between non-working time and money to be used in evaluation.
This paper — which is a revised version of “A Hypothesis of Constant Time Outlay on Travel” (Paper F29: Planning and Transport
Research and Computation Ltd. Sussex, June 1973) — is based upon work carried out with the financial support of the Social
Science Research Council. 相似文献
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Rural seniors are highly dependent on their automobile to meet their trip making needs, yet the effects of aging can make
access to the vehicle difficult or impossible over time. The anticipated growth in the older person population, in concert
with limited travel data available to support rural transportation planning in Canada suggests a disconnect between what rural
older people may require for transportation and the availability of formal alternatives. Many will seek informal alternatives
to driving, such as depending on friends and family, to meet their travel needs, but the degree is not well understood in
the context of their actual vehicle usage and stated ability to adapt. This paper draws from a Global Positioning System (GPS)-based
multi-day travel diary survey of a convenience sample of 60 rural older drivers (29 men, 31 women, average age of 69.6 years)
from New Brunswick, Canada. Participants would rely on “friends and family” for 52% of all trips they undertook as driver
in the survey, “walk or bike” for 14% of trips, and “not take the trip” in 34% of trips if they did not have access to a vehicle.
The formal option of “Transit” was not selected as a viable alternative by any participant for any trip. “Medical trips”,
“Shopping” and “Personal Errands” were the least discretionary of all trip types, yet the most difficult for participants
to find alternate arrangements. This suggests the need to explore different models of service delivery, such as a community-supported,
member-based rural shuttle service with volunteer and paid drivers that build on informal social networks and can provide
service when friends and family are unavailable. 相似文献
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In this paper, we take an initial look at the spatial and temporal flexibility in the activity patterns of the so-called “baby-boomer”
cohort (born 1947–1966) in comparison with younger and older adults. Using a unique longitudinal survey carried in Quebec
City from 2002 to 2005, we explore activity patterns and trip rates over a seven-day observation period during the first wave,
and take a first look at some aspects of their evolution over two subsequent waves at about one-year intervals. We model the
propensity to undertake activities within selected conventional non-work classifications such as “shopping” and “leisure”,
and also according to respondents’ own perceptions of the spatial and temporal flexibility of each out-of-home activity that
they had executed. While we cannot strictly separate cohort effects from age-related effects, after controlling for gender
and household structure, we infer that age and related lifestyle effects dominate in explaining these propensities. However,
the boomers were the only age stratum to increase their total out-of-home activity participation over the course of the panel,
an intriguing starting point for the future study of this cohort.
Luis F. Miranda-Moreno has been recently appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics at McGill University. His research focuses on travel behaviour, transportation safety and evaluation of sustainable transport strategies. Martin Lee-Gosselin recently retired as Full Professor at the Graduate School of Planning and CRAD, Université Laval, Québec, and is Visiting Professor at Imperial College London. His research interests are transport and telecommunications behaviour, survey methods, energy efficiency and the impacts of transport on the environment and public health. 相似文献
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Luis F. Miranda-Moreno has been recently appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics at McGill University. His research focuses on travel behaviour, transportation safety and evaluation of sustainable transport strategies. Martin Lee-Gosselin recently retired as Full Professor at the Graduate School of Planning and CRAD, Université Laval, Québec, and is Visiting Professor at Imperial College London. His research interests are transport and telecommunications behaviour, survey methods, energy efficiency and the impacts of transport on the environment and public health. 相似文献
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Peter R. White 《Transportation》1978,7(2):225-242
This paper reviews the present levels of operating support to, and public investment in, public transport systems in Western Europe. All internal bus, tram and rail services are included, and estimates made for total support in Britain, Sweden, West Germany, the Netherlands and France. To make comparison meaningful, these are shown in relation to GDP and traffic carried. Support levels in Britain are below average, but by no means the lowest as sometimes assumed. Reasons for providing support are considered, including existence of financial burdens arising historically, assistance to particular groups of users, problems in price discrimination and inability of other modes' charges to reflect costs. The extent to which support payments may merely subsidise inefficiency is outlined. A distinction is drawn between productive efficiency, i.e. the resources used to provide a specified level of service and fare, and allocative efficiency, i.e. the extent to which resources are allocated so as to maximise traffic, etc. The extent for reducing support yet retaining the present general level of service and fare is considered.Means of raising finance for support are outlined, including relative roles of central and local government. The scope of local taxes being raised to meet local objectives is considered, notably in the French versement transport: In conclusion, it is suggested that trunk inter-city services should cover all costs from fares, by a discriminatory pricing policy, but central government provide a basic support level for rural areas. In urban areas, practical limits exist to price discrimination, and the best policy may be collective purchase of facilities through a local tax. 相似文献
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The paper proposes and applies a method for systematically sorting and reducing the number of different possible solutions
to a network design problem (NDP). This is achieved first by defining a topological similarity measurement and then by applying
cluster analysis. The NDP can be derived from the scientific literature. In general, the method consists of some models and
subsequent algorithms that generate different solutions (enumerative, branch and bound, genetic, expert panel, ...) and evaluate
for each solution an objective function (with deterministic or stochastic network assignment and with elastic or inelastic
demand). The NDP, mainly in urban areas, needs multi-criteria evaluation and in each case a large set of non-dominated solutions
is generated. In this paper, in order to select solutions and identify latent optimal network layouts, cluster analysis is
carried out. The methodology utilises a “cluster” formation in relation to the solution topology and a “best” (representative)
solutions extraction in relation to the criteria values. It can be utilised after solving the existing multi-criteria NDP
and in other network problems, where the best solutions (for global or local network layouts) are extracted (with respect
to the network topology) from a large set. The method is applied in a test system and on different real networks in two Italian
towns, in order to analyse the goodness of the solution algorithm and assess its possible application to different networks. 相似文献
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Antti Talvitie 《Transportation》2008,35(3):375-393
The paper unpacks the planning process into its component parts: model, process, technique, and goals—the “good thing”. The
paper advances the concept that planning, policy-making, and organizational restructuring can be analyzed under the same framework.
Each of the four components is described and reductionist examples are presented to clarify the intention and to illustrate
the technique that the transport analyst teams employ in their work. The examples cover both successes and failures. They
point toward the enormous scientific task ahead for planning to become meaningful and relevant to the problems of today. Finally,
in the frame of the willingness to pay, the paper puts forward a case for an institutional framework for a financially autonomous road administration. Similarly
organized, administered, and managed entities are relevant also for other transport modes.
Antti Talvitie is a Professor (part time) at the Helsinki University of Technology. He has private practice as consultant and as psychoanalyst in the Washington DC area. Previously, Mr. Talvitie worked in the World Bank; was GM of Viatek Consulting Engineers in Espoo Finland; served as Director of Highway Construction and Maintenance in the Finnish Road Administration; and was Professor in the US, including Chairmanship of the Department Civil Engineering at the University of Buffalo. Mr. Talvitie holds Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, and Certificate in Psychoanalysis from the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. 相似文献
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Antti Talvitie is a Professor (part time) at the Helsinki University of Technology. He has private practice as consultant and as psychoanalyst in the Washington DC area. Previously, Mr. Talvitie worked in the World Bank; was GM of Viatek Consulting Engineers in Espoo Finland; served as Director of Highway Construction and Maintenance in the Finnish Road Administration; and was Professor in the US, including Chairmanship of the Department Civil Engineering at the University of Buffalo. Mr. Talvitie holds Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, and Certificate in Psychoanalysis from the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. 相似文献
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There has been a great deal of research on deriving estimates of the value of travel time savings (VTTS) as a way of converting
travel time benefits of toll roads relative to free routes into monetary units, the major user benefit in the development
of forecasts of traffic and hence revenue streams. By contrast there has been almost no consideration given to identifying
the role that various tollroad products play in establishing preferences for toll routes over non-tolled routes. Increasingly
tollroads give users the option to pay by cash at a toll booth, by electronic tolling or by a pre- or post-paid debit and
credit account system involving vehicle identification. The efficiency gained by electronic tolling for both the users and
the operator have resulted in moves in many jurisdictions to eliminate cash collection entirely (or not introduce it when
introducing a new tolled road facility), and to introduce a range of pre- and post-payment options. This has been accompanied
by a growing move to distance-based charging in some contexts which is more cumbersome to structure with a cash option. This
paper investigates current and potential travellers’ preferences for a range of toll products and how much individual’s are
willing to pay for very specific toll products. Data from a stated choice experiment is used in a mixed logit model to establish
the role that toll products play in the context of offered times and costs of alternative routes, in choosing between alternative
ways of paying for the use of tolled routes.
David A. Hensher is Professor of Management, and Founding Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies. David is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Recipient of the 2006 Engineers Australia Transport Medal for lifelong contribution to transportation, member of Singapore Land Transport Authority International Advisory Panel (Chaired by Minister of Transport). David is on the editorial boards of 10 of the leading transport journals and Area Editor of Transport Reviews. David was appointed in 1999 by one of the worlds most prestigious academic publishing houses—Elsevier Science press as series and volume editor of a new handbook series “Handbooks in Transport”. Appointments over recent years include: a member of the executive committee that reviewed bus transport bids for the Olympic Games, the NSW Government’s Peer Review Committee for the Sydney Strategic Transport Plan, Peer reviewer for Transfund (NZ) of the New Zealand project evaluation program, Peer reviewer of the NZ Land Passenger Transport Procurement Strategy for Land Transport NZ, member of the executive committee of ATEC, a consortium promoting a freight rail system between Melbourne and Darwin; economic adviser to Gilbert+Tobin Lawyers on valuation methods in IP context; panel member of NSW Ministry of Transport benchmarking program; specialist toll road project adviser to Thiess. John M. Rose is Director of the Industry Program and a Deputy Director at Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS). John’s research interests are in the areas of discrete choice modelling and efficient stated choice experiments. John has several articles published in the top Transportation and Logistics journals (including Transportation, Transportation Research A, B and E) and is a co-author of (with Professors David Hensher and William Greene) Applied Choice Analysis; A Primer, (2005) by Cambridge University Press. He is currently writing a book on generating efficient stated choice experimental designs (with Mike Bliemer, Delft). 相似文献
John M. RoseEmail: |
David A. Hensher is Professor of Management, and Founding Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies. David is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Recipient of the 2006 Engineers Australia Transport Medal for lifelong contribution to transportation, member of Singapore Land Transport Authority International Advisory Panel (Chaired by Minister of Transport). David is on the editorial boards of 10 of the leading transport journals and Area Editor of Transport Reviews. David was appointed in 1999 by one of the worlds most prestigious academic publishing houses—Elsevier Science press as series and volume editor of a new handbook series “Handbooks in Transport”. Appointments over recent years include: a member of the executive committee that reviewed bus transport bids for the Olympic Games, the NSW Government’s Peer Review Committee for the Sydney Strategic Transport Plan, Peer reviewer for Transfund (NZ) of the New Zealand project evaluation program, Peer reviewer of the NZ Land Passenger Transport Procurement Strategy for Land Transport NZ, member of the executive committee of ATEC, a consortium promoting a freight rail system between Melbourne and Darwin; economic adviser to Gilbert+Tobin Lawyers on valuation methods in IP context; panel member of NSW Ministry of Transport benchmarking program; specialist toll road project adviser to Thiess. John M. Rose is Director of the Industry Program and a Deputy Director at Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS). John’s research interests are in the areas of discrete choice modelling and efficient stated choice experiments. John has several articles published in the top Transportation and Logistics journals (including Transportation, Transportation Research A, B and E) and is a co-author of (with Professors David Hensher and William Greene) Applied Choice Analysis; A Primer, (2005) by Cambridge University Press. He is currently writing a book on generating efficient stated choice experimental designs (with Mike Bliemer, Delft). 相似文献
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Market segmentation studies in travel behavior research are ordinarily based on socioeconomic characteristics and personality
traits. This study explores the usefulness of a different approach, where the actual overall mobility levels across different
ground transportation modes, along with desired changes in the use of cars and transit, are used as clustering variables.
Using a given mode can in fact influence the personal representation of that mode, which in turn has been proven to be a key
element in transport behaviours. We form such multimodality-based clusters from two field studies, one involving employees
of the French transportation research institute INRETS and the other a representative sample of residents of the US San Francisco
Bay Area. We find that strong users of a given mode would like to bring more balance to their “modal consumptions” by decreasing
the use of this mode more than the average, and increasing the use of the alternative mode. However, concerning ground transport
travel budgets, the desire to travel more (or less) overall seems less strongly related to the composition of the modal balance. The US dataset shows also a greater latent demand for
travel than the French one. Socioeconomic characteristics of the clusters could not explain the patterns that were found,
confirming the importance of taking into account multimodality issues in travel behavior research. Some policy implications
from these findings are finally reported.
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Sandra Rosenbloom 《Transportation》1978,7(2):167-191
This paper reports on an analysis of a range of largely non-construction congestion reduction techniques which was funded by the U.S. National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP). A number of evaluations of the direct and indirect effec tiveness, costs, timing and feasibility of 22 major classes of promising techniques was performed. Based on this analysis, the study team evaluated 17 of these techniques as both effective and feasible in a U. S. institutional context.However, none of these 17 offered more than marginal reductions in peak-period traffic congestion when applied individually. Some techniques affected so small a percentage of travelers that reductions in congestion would not be discernible. Other techniques promised significant congestion reductions in theory but did not realize that promise in practice. It was concluded that many techniques could be implemented together with the potential for far greater combined effectiveness.An analysis was performed to determine how best to package or jointly implement promising techniques to optimize their combined effectiveness. It was found that all promising techniques could not be applied together because of conflicts in their impact. This analysis suggested eight sample packages or combinations of mutually supportive techniques. These eight packages were subjected to evaluations similar to those performed for individual techniques; while the packages are merely examples of potential combinations, the evaluation methodology employed should be of continuing use to local transportation planners.This paper was developed from NCHRP Report 169, Peak-Period Traffic Congestion, Options for Current Programs, and Peak-Period Traffic Congestion: State-of-the-Art and Recommended Research (NCHRP Agency Draft) By Robert Remak and Sandra Rosenbloom.This study was conducted under National Cooperative Highway Research Program Project 7/10. The opinions and findings expressed or implied in this paper are those of the author. They are not necessarily those of the Transportation Research Board, The National Academy of Sciences, the Federal Highway Administration, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, nor of the individual states participating in the National Cooperative Highway Research Program.On Leave to the U. S. Department of Transportation, Washington 相似文献
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This paper seeks to improve our understanding of passengers’ behavioral intention by proposing an integrated framework from
the attitudinal perspective. According to the literature in marketing research, we establish a causal relationship model that
considers “service quality-satisfaction-behavioral intentions” paradigm, perceived value theory, and switching barrier theory.
Exploring passengers’ behavioral intention from satisfaction and perceived value help to understand how passengers are attracted
by the company, while switching barriers assist in realizing how passengers are “locked” into a relationship with the current
company. Furthermore, in order to capture the nature of service quality, we adopt a hierarchical factor structure which serves
service quality as the higher-order factor. In this study, coach industry is selected as our research subject. The empirical
results, as hypothesized, show that all causal relationships are statistically significant, and perceived value us the most
important predictor of satisfaction and passengers’ behavioral intention. In conclusion, the managerial implications and suggestions
for future research are discussed. 相似文献
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A recent survey reported that many commuter-cyclists had enjoyed leisure bicycling on a regular basis prior to becoming a
commuter-cyclist. While bicycling for leisure, it is assumed that they considered various factors that led them to consider
becoming commuter-cyclists. This study began with the question of how long it would take for a leisure-cyclist to become a
commuter-cyclist, and it focused on the time that elapsed between leisure-cyclists transitioning to commuter-cycling. In order
to analyze the time frame, it was hypothesized that the probability that a leisure-cyclist would become a commuter-cyclist
at a certain time would be conditional on the duration that elapsed from the onset of leisure cycling till that time, which
represents the “snowballing” or “inertial” dynamics of duration. A robust methodology, which is known as the “hazard model,”
was adopted to accommodate such characteristics of a time period. In addition, various external covariates such as individual-specific
characteristics, variables associated with the current or previous commuting mode, supply variables regarding bicycle facilities,
and individual latent propensities were adopted to account for the duration of changes that would be generally applicable.
As a result, many useful results were derived that could be used in fomenting policies to promote cycling to work. It was
found that government should invest in establishing segregated lanes for leisure- and commuter-cyclists. It also turned out
that a long distance to work hinders a leisure-cyclist from progressing to commuter-cycling. According to the results, young
white-collar workers who live in high-rise apartments and enjoy intensive leisure-cycling in groups, are a good target toward
whom promotions for commuter-cycling should be focused. However, an unfortunate development was that, when compared with car-commuters,
it was found that transit-commuters are more likely to become commuter-cyclists. 相似文献
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So far in the decade of the 1970's, commitments have been made to construct a second generation of new rail systems in four urban areas — Atlanta, Baltimore, Miami and Buffalo. In this paper the authors speculate on the prospects and perils that lie ahead for these systems in the context of national and local expectations for rail transit and the experience of the first generation rail transit systems of San Francisco (BART) and Washington. 相似文献
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Performance indicators for transit management 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Transit performance can be evaluated through quantitative indicators. As the provision of efficient and effective transit service are appropriate goals to be encouraged by federal and state governments, these goals are used to develop performance indicators.Three efficiency and four effectiveness indicators are described, together with two overall indicators. These nine indicators are analyzed for comparability utilizing operating and financial data collected from public transit agencies in California.Performance indicators selected for this study should not be viewed as final. Twenty-one performance indicators proposed by previous studies were reviewed. Theoretical considerations and unavailability or unreliability of data caused omission of several useful measures like passenger-miles. Circumstances such as improved data, emphasis upon goals other than efficiency and effectiveness, and local conditions might warrant the inclusion of indicators deleted from this research.This paper is based on work conducted for the Urban Mass Transportation Administration under University Research and Training Grant CA-11-0014, Development of Performance Indicators for Transit. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the University of California or the United States Government. We are indebted to John Feren for assistance with the statistical processing and data gathering. 相似文献
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The robustness of questionnaire results to various forms of bias are explored in the context of a dual-mode (web and hardcopy)
survey of employers’ anticipations of levels of employee commuting and business travel activity under a range of future ICT
scenarios. The questionnaire incorporated several innovative features which, together with the dual-mode format, allowed an
unusually wide range of analyses. For example: the robustness of respondents’ opinions was tested by examining the effect
of incorporating alternative versions of a briefing text, one being very positive and one very negative, about the role of
ICT; instrument bias was identified via detailed comparison of the results from the two versions of the questionnaire; and
the impact of exogenous factors which are often ignored or taken as constant was assessed via special supplementary questions.
Analysis showed that the robustness of opinions and expectations varied and was influenced by respondent characteristics,
and that results from the two versions of the questionnaire differed significantly. It is concluded that opinions and expectations
are less robust, and questionnaire results are more subject to bias and myopic interpretation, than is generally recognised
and that web-based surveys seem particularly vulnerable to sampling bias. Methods are suggested for measuring robustness,
for reducing bias and for validating and contextualising results. The use of contrasting briefing texts is recommended as
a means of establishing the robustness of opinions and expectations while supplementary questions are recommended for validating
and contextualising SP and SE exercises.
Peter Bonsall Professor of Transport Planning at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. His research interests include: use of innovative data sources, microsimulation, multi-criteria appraisal of policy interventions, travellers’ perception of modal attributes, their ability to cope with uncertainty and complexity and their response to new information and charges. Jeremy Shires Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. His research interests include behavioural modelling, the impact of “soft factors” on travel, stated preference design and public transport demand modelling. 相似文献
Peter BonsallEmail: |
Peter Bonsall Professor of Transport Planning at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. His research interests include: use of innovative data sources, microsimulation, multi-criteria appraisal of policy interventions, travellers’ perception of modal attributes, their ability to cope with uncertainty and complexity and their response to new information and charges. Jeremy Shires Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. His research interests include behavioural modelling, the impact of “soft factors” on travel, stated preference design and public transport demand modelling. 相似文献
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E. J. Judge 《Transportation》1974,3(1):25-44
This paper is concerned with methods of testing the accuracy of traffic assignments. It focuses on the fact that whereas assignment
models are usually based on a behavioural hypothesis about drivers' route choice (e.g. cost or time minimisation) the test
of the accuracy of the assignment is the extent to which observed link loadings are reproduced. This inconsistency opens up
the doubt that an apparently “accurate” assignment on this basis may be a result of compensating errors. It is difficult to
apply the same test to accuracy of route choices as is applied to accuracy of link loadings (e.g. chi square, correlation
coefficient) and hence a new measure is devised here which can be applied both to comparisons between observed and predicted
route choices and comparisons between observed and predicted loadings. It is, moreover, possible to devise a test of significance
for this measure so that one can test whether a predicted assignment is significantly different from what one, might have
observed on the basis of chance observation.
A case study is carried out to test the proposed method. Traffic flows between 72 origins and destinations on either side
of the Pennine Mountains in Britain are assigned to a network using different assignment techniques with varied parameters.
In all, one hundred and ninety assignments are carried out and the degree of correspondence between observed and predicted
route choices and link loadings is measured. The results tend to confirm that the link loadings criterion is not a very stable
criterion and that the route choice correspondence criteria seems to behave in a sensible way. A simulation exercise is carried
out which produces the probability distribution of the “route-fit” index for different assumed sample levels. The paper concludes
by suggesting avenues for further research. 相似文献
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The New York State Department of Transportation was required to certify as to the economy and efficiency of transit operators participating in the State's public transportation operating assistance program. This paper describes the efforts undertaken to meet this mandate.Discussed are past efforts to link performance measures to funding programs; reasons for modifying measures which had been used in previous efforts; and some of the problems and issues raised by the use of such criteria. The paper identifies 15 performance measures being used by New York State in its evaluations, the actual ranges encountered in the transit operations being funded through the state program, and tentative acceptable and desirable levels of those measures which the Transportation Department is using in its evaluation. The role these measures play in the state's operating assistance policy decision process is also described. 相似文献
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The role of transport disadvantage in the social exclusion of low income and marginalised households and communities has received
increasing academic and policy interest over the last 10 years or so. Against a backdrop of studies that have predominantly
considered this issue within various national contexts, this paper offers a unique opportunity to compare different national context. The paper is informed by a commissioned study for the State of Victoria Department of Transport (Lucas,
Study of transport exclusion in the state of Victoria: It doesn’t have to be this way, 2008), which wished to draw lessons from the United Kingdom in order to promote a similar policy agenda for the State. It is the
authors’ contention that the issue of transport-related social exclusion is likely receive growing international policy recognition
in the context of global recession, associated local job losses and reduced disposable incomes, as well as the ageing structure
of most Western societies. The paper seeks to disseminate the important findings of our study about the potential for policy
transfer to other national and local contexts to a wider academic, policy and practitioner audience. 相似文献
19.
Bert Van Wee 《运输规划与技术》2013,36(1):31-48
Abstract Cost–benefit analysis (CBA) plays a major role in the ex ante evaluation of rail projects in many western countries. At first sight carrying out a CBA for rail projects seems straightforward, since cost estimates are almost always available, and the most dominant benefits are generally known, being the travel time saved and the increase in consumer surplus due to induced demand. However, the practice is much more complex: the quality of current estimates for costs and benefits is often poor and several benefits-related aspects are ignored. This article gives an overview of the challenges in improving the quality of CBAs for rail projects. 相似文献
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This paper looks at the first and second best jointly optimal toll and road capacity investment problems from both policy
and technical oriented perspectives. On the technical side, the paper investigates the applicability of the constraint cutting
algorithm for solving the second best problem under elastic demand which is formulated as a bilevel programming problem. The
approach is shown to perform well despite several problems encountered by our previous work in Shepherd and Sumalee (Netw.
Spat. Econ., 4(2): 161–179, 2004). The paper then applies the algorithm to a small sized network to investigate the policy implications of the first and second
best cases. This policy analysis demonstrates that the joint first best structure is to invest in the most direct routes while
reducing capacities elsewhere. Whilst unrealistic this acts as a useful benchmark. The results also show that certain second
best policies can achieve a high proportion of the first best benefits while in general generating a revenue surplus. We also
show that unless costs of capacity are known to be low then second best tolls will be affected and so should be analysed in
conjunction with investments in the network.
Andrew Koh Prior to joining the Institute for Transport Studies in December 2005, Andrew was employed for number of years as a consultant in highway assignment modelling. He is an economist with wide ranging research interests in transport economics as well as evolutionary computation heuristics such as genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimisation and differential evolution. Simon Shepherd At the Institute for Transport Studies since 1989, he gained his doctorate in 1994 applying state-space methods to the problem of traffic responsive signal control in over-saturated conditions. His expertise lies in modelling and policy optimisation ranging from detailed simulation models through assignment to strategic land use transport models. Recently he has focussed on optimisation of road user charging schemes and is currently working on optimal cordon design and system dynamics approaches to strategic modelling. Agachai Sumalee Agachai is currently an Assistant Professor at Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (). He obtained a Ph.D degree with the thesis entitled “Optimal Road Pricing Scheme Design” at Leeds University in 2004. His research areas cover transport network modeling and optimization, stochastic network modeling, network reliability analysis, and road pricing. Agachai is currently an associate editor of Networks and Spatial Economics. 相似文献
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Andrew Koh Prior to joining the Institute for Transport Studies in December 2005, Andrew was employed for number of years as a consultant in highway assignment modelling. He is an economist with wide ranging research interests in transport economics as well as evolutionary computation heuristics such as genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimisation and differential evolution. Simon Shepherd At the Institute for Transport Studies since 1989, he gained his doctorate in 1994 applying state-space methods to the problem of traffic responsive signal control in over-saturated conditions. His expertise lies in modelling and policy optimisation ranging from detailed simulation models through assignment to strategic land use transport models. Recently he has focussed on optimisation of road user charging schemes and is currently working on optimal cordon design and system dynamics approaches to strategic modelling. Agachai Sumalee Agachai is currently an Assistant Professor at Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (). He obtained a Ph.D degree with the thesis entitled “Optimal Road Pricing Scheme Design” at Leeds University in 2004. His research areas cover transport network modeling and optimization, stochastic network modeling, network reliability analysis, and road pricing. Agachai is currently an associate editor of Networks and Spatial Economics. 相似文献