Quantifying travel time variability at a single bottleneck based on stochastic capacity and demand distributions

M Li, X Zhou, NM Rouphail - Journal of Intelligent Transportation …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Travel time reliability, an essential factor in traveler route and departure time decisions,
serves as an important quality of service measure for dynamic transportation systems. This …

Analytical models for quantifying travel time variability based on stochastic capacity and demand distributions

X Zhou, NM Rouphail, M Li - 2011 - trid.trb.org
As an essential attribute in travelers' route and departure time decision, travel time reliability
serves as an important quality-of-service measure for dynamic transportation systems. This …

An investigation of measurement for travel time variability

S Chien, X Liu - Intelligent transportation systems, 2012 - books.google.com
Congestion has grown over the past two decades making the travel time highly unreliable.
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), US Department of Transportation (USDOT) …

Modeling cost variability in a bottleneck model with degradable capacity

G Jiang, S Wang, HK Lo, Z Liang - Transportmetrica B: transport …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Valuing travel time reliability is an important element of travel choice modeling. In this paper,
we introduce the notion of variation cost in the utility function, capturing the variations in both …

Capturing value of reliability through road pricing in congested traffic under uncertainty

S Zhu, G Jiang, HK Lo - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2018 - Elsevier
Empirical studies showed that travel time reliability, usually measured by travel time
variance, is strongly correlated with travel time itself. Travel time is highly volatile when the …

[PDF][PDF] Departure time distribution in the stochastic bottleneck model

H Li, PHL Bovy, MCJ Bliemer - Delft University of Technology, 2008 - its-jp.org
This paper presents an analytical investigation of departure time choice under stochastic
capacity using Vickrey's bottleneck model. The deterministic bottleneck model of Vickrey has …

Bottleneck and queuing analysis: Calibrating volume–delay functions of travel demand models

LF Huntsinger, NM Rouphail - Transportation research …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper discusses the link performance functions used in travel demand models with a
focus on the strengths and weaknesses of the most commonly used volume–delay functions …

[PDF][PDF] Probability distributions of travel times on arterial networks: A traffic flow and horizontal queuing theory approach

A Hofleitner, R Herring, A Bayen - … Research Board Annual …, 2012 - bayen.berkeley.edu
In arterial networks, traffic flow dynamics are driven by the presence of traffic signals, for
which precise signal timing is difficult to obtain in arbitrary networks or might change over …

Travel time variations over time and routes: endogenous congestion with degradable capacities

H Li, H Tu, X Zhang - Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
To investigate how the travel time variability develops over time and routes, in relation to
mean travel time, this paper analytically explores the departures with day-to-day capacity …

The valuation of travel time reliability: does congestion matter?

Y Xiao, N Coulombel, A De Palma - Transportation Research Part B …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the valuation of travel time reliability in the presence of endogenous
congestion and the role of scheduling preferences. The bottleneck model of road congestion …