Modeling heterogeneous risk-taking behavior in route choice: A stochastic dominance approach

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 896-915

  Wu, Xing ^a   Marco Nie, Yu ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

General dynamic programming; Risk aversion; Route choice; Ruin aversion; Stochastic dominance

Indexed keywords

RISK MANAGEMENT; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; RISK AVERSION; RISK-TAKING BEHAVIORS; ROUTE CHOICE; RUIN AVERSION; STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE; UTILITY MAXIMIZATIONS;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK PERCEPTION; STOCHASTICITY; TRANSPORTATION; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 80051699868     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2011.04.009     Document Type: Article

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