Pre-trip information and route-choice decisions with stochastic travel conditions: Experiment

• Published in: Transportation research. Part B: methodological Vol. 68; pp. 154 - 172
• Main Authors: Rapoport, Amnon, Gisches, Eyran J., Daniel, Terry, Lindsey, Robin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2014
• Subjects: Advanced Traveler Information Systems; Congestion; Correlation; Costs; Decisions; Laboratory experiments; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; Populations; Pre-trip information; Road capacity; Route choice; Stochasticity; Transportation; Road capacity; Congestion; Pre-trip information; Laboratory experiments; Route choice; Advanced Traveler Information Systems

•In theory, providing information about travel conditions can increase travel costs.•We test the theory using laboratory experiments for a two-route congested network.•Subjects are given pre-trip information about travel conditions on each route.•We find that providing information increases costs as...