Over-reporting vs. overreacting: Commuters' perceptions of travel times

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 476-494

  Peer, Stefanie ^a,c   Knockaert, Jasper ^a   Koster, Paul ^a,b   Verhoef, Erik T ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Panel latent class models; Reported travel times; Scheduling choices; SP RP data; Travel time perception; Valuation of travel time

Indexed keywords

SCHEDULING;

CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; LATENT CLASS MODEL; MORNING COMMUTES; REPORTED TRAVEL TIMES; REVEALED PREFERENCE DATUM; SCHEDULING BEHAVIOR; TRANSPORT RESEARCH; TRAVEL TIME DATA;

TRAVEL TIME;

COMMUTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; PERCEPTION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 85027958349     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2014.07.005     Document Type: Article

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