Temporal and weather related variation patterns of urban travel time: Considerations and caveats for value of travel time, value of variability, and mode choice studies

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 45, Issue , 2014, Pages 4-16

  Kamga, Camille ^a   Yazici, M Anil ^b  

^a City College of New York   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Travel time; Value of reliability; Value of time; Variability

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; COBALT ALLOYS; METEOROLOGY; RELIABILITY; TAXICABS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

AVERAGE TRAVEL TIME; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; INCLEMENT WEATHERS; TRAVEL TIME RELIABILITY; VALUE OF TIME; VARIABILITY;

TRAVEL TIME;

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRANSPORTATION MODE; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRAVEL TIME; URBAN TRANSPORT; WEATHER;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84904353466     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2014.02.020     Document Type: Article

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