COVID-19, Travel Time Reliability, and the Emergence of a Double-Humped Peak Period

Yang Gao and David Levinson

No 2021-12, Working Papers from University of Minnesota: Nexus Research Group

Abstract: This paper explores the travel time variance, occupancy heterogeneity level, and average network traffic flow of Minneapolis-St. Paul freeway network and determines the time-lag relationship between travel time variance and the spatio-temporal distribution of congestion (occupancy). It finds COVID-19 reduced the travel time variability of the urban freeway network and notably makes visible a double-humped peak period in the diurnal traffic flow curve.

Keywords: covid-19; travel time reliability; macroscopic fundamental diagram; hysteresis; diurnal curve (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Published in Findings, (August 2021).

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DOI: 10.32866/001c.27013

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