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https://doi.org/10.3141/1917-07

http://scholar.google.com...ylen&publication_year=2005

Generally, the day-to-day variability of route travel times on, for example, freeway corridors is considered closely related to the reliability of a road network. The more that travel times on route r are dispersed in a particular time-of-day (TOD) and day-of-week (DOW) period, the more unreliable travel times on route r are conceived to be. In the literature, many different aspects of the day-to-day travel time distribution have been proposed as indicators of reliability. Mean and variance do not provide much insight because those metrics tend to obscure important aspects of the distribution under specific circumstances. It is argued that both skew and width of this distribution are relevant indicators for unreliability; therefore, two reliability metrics are proposed. These metrics are based on three characteristic percentiles: the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentile for a given route and TOD-DOW period. High values of either metric indicate high travel time unreliability. However, the weight of each metric on travel time reliability may be application- or context-specific. The practical value of these particular metrics is that they can be used to construct so-called reliability maps, which not only visualize the unreliability of travel times for a given DOW-TOD period but also help identify DOW-TOD periods in which congestion will likely set in (or dissolve). That means identification of the uncertainty of start, end, and, hence, length of morning and afternoon peak hours. Combined with a long-term travel time prediction model, the metrics can be used to predict travel time (un)reliability. Finally, the metrics may be used in discrete choice models as explanatory variables for driver uncertainty.

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English

pp 54-62

2005

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

0309093902

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Choice models; Days; Forecasting; Freeways; Metrics (Quantitative assessment); Monitoring; Peak periods; Periods of the day; Reliability; Traffic congestion; Travel time; Uncertainty

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

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 27 2005 8:57AM

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