 Unobserved heterogeneity analysis of rail transit incident delaysBismark Agbelie and Kathleen Libnao Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2018, vol. 117, issue C, 39-43 Abstract: Passenger rail transit systems are frequently subjected to disruptions from incidents resulting in increased passenger waiting times, and loss of revenue to operators. The objective of the present study is to investigate the impacts of rail transit-related factors on the duration of delay, if an incident takes place. In order to account for the unobserved heterogeneity for each factor and the data generation process, a random-parameters hazard-based duration approach that accounts for these heterogeneities was employed in the present study. Out of the fourteen estimated parameters found to be statistically significant at the 1% significance level, seven parameters were found to vary across observations. This indicates that if the model was restricted and only fixed parameters were estimated, the inferences from the seven random parameters will not be accurate. Date: 2018 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:transa:v:117:y:2018:i:c:p:39-43 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2018.07.009 Access Statistics for this article Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice is currently edited by John (J.M.) Rose More articles in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice from Elsevier |
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