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Title:

Modeling the Choice of Time-of-Day for Joint Social-Recreational Tours

Accession Number:

01519259

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

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Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Joint travel, which is often undertaken to pursue social/recreational activities, requires temporal synchronization of travel of all members of the travel party. Consequently, these trips are often scheduled within specific time windows of the day after other constrained travel (such as mandatory and maintenance related) has been scheduled for all the members in the travel party. This study presents a two-step approach to the simultaneous modeling of departure- and arrival- times for such joint tours. The first model predicts a time-window for pursuing the joint discretionary tour from among all possible windows. The second model locates the tour within this chosen time window. The data used in this analysis comprised 2,609 joint tours undertaken by couple-adult households obtained from 2009 US National Household Travel Survey (NHTS). A wide set of explanatory variables (i.e., time window attributes, socio-economic characteristics, and tour attributes) were considered. Predictive assessments indicate the ability of the model system to capture the departure and arrival times effectively. Implicitly, the total tour durations were also determined effectively. Overall, the two-step model system demonstrated in this study is a simple and parsimonious approach to predicting the time of day choices for joint tours. In particular, the use of the fractional split model for locating the tour within the chosen window allows for modeling time of day choices at the continuous scale.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB40 Transportation Demand Forecasting. Alternate title: Modeling Time-of-Day Choice for Joint Social-Recreational Tours.

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-5372

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Lim, Kwang-Kyun
Srinivasan, Sivaramakrishnan

Pagination:

18p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-5372

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 3:53PM