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Title:

SUBJECTIVE TIME SAVINGS IN INTERURBAN TRAVEL: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

Accession Number:

00242600

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/0309021774

Abstract:

TRAVEL TIME SAVINGS ARE USUALLY ESTIMATED ON THE BASIS OF OBJECTIVE MEASURES OF TIME. SUCH OBJECTIVE MEASURES ARE ASSUMED TO CORRESPOND TO THE MEAN OF A DISTRIBUTION OF SUBJECTIVE TIME SAVINGS AS REPORTED BY TRAVELERS. IN A MULTIMODAL, SINGLE-ROUTE, INTERURBAN PASSENGER SURVEY CARRIED OUT IN ISRAEL, THAT WAS NOT FOUND TO BE THE CASE. EACH PASSENGER WAS REQUESTED TO REPORT SEPARATELY TIME DIFFERENCES BY MODE AND TIME SAVINGS. WHEN THE REPLIES WERE COMPARED, IT APPEARED THAT 21 PERCENT OF AIR PASSENGERS STATED THAT THEIR TIME SAVINGS AMOUNTED TO QUANTITIES NEARLY TWICE AS MUCH AS THE MEAN OF THE DIFFERENCE IN REPORTED TRAVEL TIMES. WHEN ASKED HOW MUCH TIME THEY WOULD HAVE SAVED TRAVELING BY AIR, 16 PERCENT OF ALL BUS PASSENGERS INDICATED THE SAME DISCREPANCY BETWEEN DIFFERENCES IN TIME SPENT AND TIME SAVED. A GROUP OF LARGE TIME SAVERS, AS COMPARED WITH NORMAL TIME SAVERS, WAS IDENTIFIED WITH A DISTINCTIVE PROFILE OF TRIP ATTRIBUTES BUT NOT OF SOCIOECONOMIC ATTRIBUTES. LARGE TIME SAVERS ARE THOSE PASSENGERS WHO REPORTED TWICE AS MUCH TIME SAVINGS AS THE DIFFERENCES IN TIME SPENT BY MODE. POSSIBLE REASONS FOR THE BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION OF TIME SAVINGS HAVE BEEN SOUGHT IN THE PERCEPTION OF THE CHOICE SITUATION GENERALLY FACING THE TRAV ELER, OR, ALTERNATIVELY, IN THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS OF TRIPS ACROSS A DESERT. IT IS RECOMMENDED TO CLARIFY THE GENERALITY OF THE RESULTS BY MEANS OF ADDITIONAL SURVEYS OF SIMILAR DE- SIGN.

Supplemental Notes:

Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Social, Economic, and Environmental Factors of Transportation. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Monograph Title:

Travel behavior

Monograph Accession #:

01410360

Authors:

Reichman, Shalom

Pagination:

pp 21-27

Publication Date:

1973

Serial:

Highway Research Record

Issue Number: 446
Publisher: Highway Research Board

Conference:

52nd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board

Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
Date: 1973-1-22 to 1973-1-26

ISBN:

0309021774

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures (2) ; References (10) ; Tables (4)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Interurbans; Time savings

Subject Areas:

Aviation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 11 1974 12:00AM

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