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Measurement of Travel Fatigue: Objective Monitoring and Subjective Estimation

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01340214

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Abstract:

Using both objective monitoring and subjective estimation, this paper investigates travel fatigue. Objective monitoring included an experiment designed to measure energy expenditure rates with a heart rate monitor while travelers walked on level ground, went up and down stairs, and rode on a bus and subway. Free modulus magnitude estimation was used to investigate travelers’ subjective perceptions of fatigue while traveling. The results of the two parts were compared to understand their relationship. The results showed that the energy expenditure rate was sensitive not only to travel mode, represented by running vehicle acceleration, but also to posture, carrying personal belongings, and in-vehicle crowding. According to participants’ subjective perceptions, the effect of in-vehicle crowding was greater than carrying a 3.8-kg burden; the fatigue rates of standing, both with and without a load, tended to be subjectively overestimated compared with normally transformed energy expenditure rates. Numerical results from a case study in Zhongshan, China, and an online survey of bigger cities in China showed that travel time is not the only issue. Travel fatigue must also be considered in planning urban transportation systems and in evaluating transit service quality and has great potential for predicting choice of travel mode.

Monograph Title:

Transit 2011, Volume 1

Monograph Accession #:

01361754

Report/Paper Numbers:

11-1104

Language:

English

Authors:

An, Jian
Uno, Nobuhiro
Yang, Xiao-Guang
Liu, Hao-De
Shiomi, Yasuhiro

Pagination:

pp 157-164

Publication Date:

2011

Serial:

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Issue Number: 2216
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

9780309167659

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures (4) ; References (32) ; Tables (4)

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Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

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TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 17 2011 5:41PM

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