Accounting for route overlap in urban and suburban route choice decisions derived from GPS observations
Year: 2009
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Two of the most prominent factors influencing driver's route choice behaviour in an urban or suburban environment are the large number of alternatives available to the decision-maker and the similarity between route alternatives, both caused by the high density of urban and suburban street networks.Regarding the modelling of route choice behaviour this high density influences the way the choice set is established as well as the way the overlap between route alternatives is accounted for.This paper addresses both issues for car route choice observations derived from GPS data.Different choice set generation procedures as well as choice set sizes are evaluated regarding their effect on the choice set composition and the resulting route choice models.In addition, the impact of different route attributes is investigated.The focus, however, will be put on the analysis of the similarity factors, which account for route overlap.Different formulations will be tested in order to evaluate which mechanisms are at work in car route choice in an urban or suburban context.
Authors: Axhausen, Kay W., Schüssler, Nadine
Language: English
Subfield: Transportation
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1598697418