Print Email Facebook Twitter Commuters and traffic information: A revealed preference study on route choice behavior Title Commuters and traffic information: A revealed preference study on route choice behavior Author Moraes Ramos, G. Frejinger, E. Daamen, W. Hoogendoorn, S.P. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Transport and Planning Date 2012-12-31 Abstract The past decades have seen an increased interest in the role of information to alleviate congestion. The relationship between travelers’ behavior and information, however, is not clear yet and the need of more experiments has been claimed in the literature. From May 9th, 2011 to July 12th, 2011 a revealed preference (RP) route choice experiment was conducted in the Netherlands. With the aid of GPS devices and travel diaries, we investigated the behavior of 32 commuters with similar origins and destinations in reaction to different sources and conditions of information. Descriptive analysis of the data set with respect to the use of information suggests that travelers, commuters in particular, do not tend to use information to better plan departure times but instead use it to anticipate expectations regarding traffic conditions. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4965d6a9-c5c8-4102-a68d-e0fac28f6325 Publisher Trail Research School Source TRAIL Beta-Congress: Mobility and logistics -Science meets practice, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 30-31 Oct. 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2012 The Authors Files PDF 289276.pdf 1.72 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:4965d6a9-c5c8-4102-a68d-e0fac28f6325/datastream/OBJ/view