Intra-household bargaining for school trip accompaniment of children: A group decision approach

This paper tests a group decision-making model to examine the school travel behavior of students 6–18 years old in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan area. The school trip information of 1737 two-parent families with a student is extracted from Travel Behavior Inventory data collected by the Metropolitan Council between the Fall 2010 and Spring 2012. The model has four distinct characteristics including: (1) considering the student explicitly in the model, (2) allowing for bargaining or negotiation within households, (3) quantifying the intra-household interaction among family members, and (4) determining the decision weight function for household members. This framework also covers a household with three members, namely, a father, a mother, and a student, and unlike other studies it is not limited to dual-worker families. To test the hypotheses we build two models, each with and without the group-decision approach. The models are separately built for different age groups, namely students 6–12 and 12–18 years old. This study considers a wide range of variables such as work status of parents, age and gender of students, mode of travel, and distance to school. The findings of this study demonstrate that the elasticities of the two modeling approaches differ not only in the value, but in the sign in some cases. In 63% of the cases the unitary household model underestimates the results. More precisely, the elasticities of the unitary household model are as much as 2 times more than that of the group-decision model in 20% of cases. This is a direct consequence of model misspecification that misleads both long- and short-term policies where the intra-household bargaining and interaction is overlooked in travel behavior models.     

信号交叉口车辆拖延行为分析

在分析HCM2000 Back of Queue模型计算值偏大的原因中,提出了信号交叉口车辆拖延行为的概念,分析了拖延行为导致Back of Queue模型偏大的2种情况。建立了车辆拖延行为3阶段模型,重点推导了拖延行为模型中,低匀速行驶的时间与不发生拖延行为的正常状况下的停车等待时间之间的关系。根据统计分析,确定低匀速行驶的速度和时间的取值范围,在此基础上推导出车辆发生拖延行为的最大时间间隔Tmax,以及车辆发生拖延行为的条件。讨论了Tmax在考虑拖延行为的排队模型中的应用,是对考虑拖延行为的Back of Queue模型研究的进一步深化。     

溶洞的存在对隧道开挖影响的数值分析

以白须公1号隧道为背景,运用有限元程序MIDAS/GTS模拟了隧道穿过特大溶洞时分台阶开挖的施工过程,分析了隧道在有溶洞条件下的施工力学行为,为关键部位加强支护提供理论依据。分析结果表明：该溶洞围岩自承能力较好,隧道衬砌连接处会出现应力集中,施工过程中要确保支护结构的整体稳定。     

From behavioral psychology to acceleration modeling: Calibration,validation, and exploration of drivers’ cognitive and safety parameters in a risk-taking environment

We investigate a utility-based approach for driver car-following behavioral modeling while analyzing different aspects of the model characteristics especially in terms of capturing different fundamental diagram regions and safety proxy indices. The adopted model came from an elementary thought where drivers associate subjective utilities for accelerations (i.e. gain in travel times) and subjective dis-utilities for decelerations (i.e. loss in travel time) with a perceived probability of being involved in rear-end collision crashes. Following the testing of the model general structure, the authors translate the corresponding behavioral psychology theory – prospect theory – into an efficient microscopic traffic modeling with more elaborate stochastic characteristics considered in a risk-taking environment.After model formulation, we explore different model disaggregate and aggregate characteristics making sure that fidelity is kept in terms of equilibrium properties. Significant effort is then dedicated to calibrating and validating the model using microscopic trajectory data. A modified genetic algorithm is adopted for this purpose while focusing on capturing inter-driver heterogeneity for each of the parameters. Using the calibration exercise as a starting point, simulation sensitivity analysis is performed to reproduce different fundamental diagram regions and to explore rear-end collisions related properties. In terms of fundamental diagram regions, the model in hand is able to capture traffic breakdowns and different instabilities in the congested region represented by flow-density data points scattering. In terms of incident related measures, the effect of heterogeneity in both psychological factors and execution/perception errors on the accidents number and their distribution is studied. Through sensitivity analysis, correlations between the crash-penalty, the negative coefficient associated with losses in speed, the positive coefficient associated with gains in speed, the driver’s uncertainty, the anticipation time and the reaction time are retrieved. The formulated model offers a better understanding of driving behavior, particularly under extreme/incident conditions.     

Understanding parking decisions with a Bayesian network

In this paper, a Bayesian network is developed to investigate three intertwining parking decisions, namely parking period, parking location, and parking duration, and the impacts of a number of parking-related factors on these decisions. With parking information from Beijing, China in 2005, the structure and parameter of a Bayesian network were learnt by employing the K2 algorithm and Bayesian parameter estimation method respectively. The results show that the decision on how long to park follows that on where to park, and both of them are affected by the decision of when to park. This suggests that parking policies aimed at intervening in one specific parking decision may have an indirect influence on other parking decisions, which embraces an integrated view in the development of parking policies. The findings facilitate the development of measures for regulating parking behavior by identifying important contributing factors.     

Exploring electric vehicle charging patterns: Mixed usage of charging infrastructure

This paper examines the charging behavior of 7,979 plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) owners in California. The study investigates where people charge be it at home, at work, or at public location, and the level of charging they use including level 1, level 2, or DC fast charging. While plug-in behavior can differ among PEV owners based on their travel patterns, preferences, and access to infrastructure studies often make generalizations about charging behavior. In this study, we explore differences in charging behavior among different types of PEV owners based on their use of charging locations and levels, we then identify factors associated with PEV owner’s choice of charging location and charging level. We identified socio-demographic (gender and age), vehicle characteristics, commute behavior, and workplace charging availability as significant factors related to the choice of charging location.     

A three-stage evacuation decision-making and behavior model for the onset of an attack

Pedestrian behavior models have successfully reproduced human movement in many situations. However, few studies focus on modeling human behavior in the context of terrorist attacks. Terrorist attacks commonly occur in crowded public areas and result in a large number of casualties. This paper proposes a three-stage model to reproduce a series of complex behaviors and decision-making processes at the onset of an attack, when pedestrians generally do not have clear targets and have to deal with fuzzy information from the attack. The first stage of the model builds a Bayesian belief network to represent the pedestrians’ initial judgment of the threat and their evacuation decisions. The second stage focuses on pedestrians’ global assessment of the situation through an analogy with diffusion processes. The third stage uses a cost function to reproduce the trade-offs of distance, safety, and emotional impact when considering a path to take. The model is validated using a video from the November 2015 Paris attack. The behavioral characteristics and trajectories of three pedestrians extracted from the video are reproduced by the simulation results based on the model. The research can be used to set rules when performing risk analysis and strategic defensive resource allocation of terrorist attacks using agent-based simulation methods.     

考虑偏好差异的后疫情时代居民出行方式选择行为研究

为探究后疫情时代居民出行方式选择行为，运用选择实验的方法，基于问卷调查获得选择行为数据，构建出行方式选择的混合Logit模型和潜在类别条件Logit模型。采用Stata软件标定模型参数，得到后疫情时代影响居民出行方式选择的主要因素。结果表明，两种模型均体现了个体出行方式选择的异质性，潜在类别条件Logit模型与混合Logit模型相比拟合优度提高了13%， 预测精度提高了3.03%，为突发公共卫生事件下分析出行行为的个体异质性提供了一种有效工具。潜在类别条件Logit模型根据居民所处低、中风险区两种情景，分别将居民划分为4类、5类人 群。从出行方式属性上看，等待时间和在途时间成为居民选择出行方式最重要的影响因素。从个人社会经济属性上看，在后疫情时代收入更高的女性更倾向选择私家车出行，年龄越大对行程费用越敏感，男性更愿意选择公交、地铁出行。     

不同信息下的逐日路径选择行为实验与模型

为研究先进出行者信息系统(ATIS)对出行者逐日路径选择行为的影响，本文基于 Braess路网设计5组具有不同ATIS市场占有率(0、25%、50%、75%、100%)的行为实验.结果表明：3条路径的流量及新增路径保持选择的次数持续波动，随着ATIS市场占有率增大，路网平均行程时间趋于用户均衡，新增路径保持选择的次数呈现增长趋势，且被试对新增路径的选择性偏好增强，Braess悖论的效果也更明显.基于5组实验数据，分别建立普通Logit模型和基于面板数据的随机效应Logit模型刻画路径选择行为.结果表明：当ATIS市场占有率为0时，最佳模型为普通Logit模型；当ATIS市场占有率增大甚至达到100%时，最佳模型均为随机效应Logit模型；未配备ATIS的出行者的个体差异性比配备ATIS的小.     

Making time count: Traveler activity engagement on urban transit

In practice, travel time is assigned a cost and treated as a disutility to be minimized. There is a growing body of research supporting the hypothesis that travel time has some value of its own, and the proliferation of information and communication technology (ICT) may be contributing to that value. Travelers’ attitudes are confounded with their mode choice, and as telecommunications mediate travel behavior, analysts must recognize the interaction between time use and customer satisfaction for appropriate travel demand management. To that end, this paper presents results from jointly estimated models of travelers’ latent satisfaction and on-board activity engagement using Chicago transit rider data gathered in April 2010. The simple questionnaire and small sample corroborate the findings of past research indicating travel attitudes and activity engagement have potential to influence travelers’ value of time, and many transit riders consider transit a better use of time and/or money than driving. The findings affirm the need for a more holistic understanding of value of time for travel demand management and infrastructure valuation. As time use has an influence on users’ valuation of the transit mode, offering opportunities to conduct certain leisure activities could improve the perceived value of travel time.