Reliability and Unreliability Aspects of Travel Time Analysis on the Stochastic Network Using the Target-Oriented Perspective

Gonghang Chen, Jifeng Cao () and Xiangfeng Ji ()
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Gonghang Chen: School of Business, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266000, China
Jifeng Cao: School of Business, Linyi University, Linyi 276000, China
Xiangfeng Ji: School of Business, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266000, China

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 12, 1-22

Abstract: This study proposes a target-oriented method to study travelers’ route choice behavior under travel time variability, and discusses the resulted equilibrium flow patterns. Both travel time reliability and travel time unreliability are considered in this new method, and accordingly, there are two targets. The first one is target for travel time to ensure travel time reliability, and based on this target, another one is target for excess delay to mitigate travel time unreliability. In this model, travel time and excess delay (i.e., the random vector) are stochastically correlated with each other, which is modeled with the copula function based on Sklar’s Theorem, and the exact form of the copula is obtained by the proved comonotonicity relationship of this random vector. The target interaction, i.e., the complementarity relationship, is also modeled based on the utility functions, the meaning of which is that travelers have the will to make more targets achieved so as to obtain more utility. Furthermore, with this model, this paper formulates the user equilibrium as a variational inequality problem to study the long-term effect of the route choice behavior, and solves it with the method of successive average. Finally, numerical testings on the traffic network are conducted to show the convergence of the solution algorithm, and to illustrate the impact of targets on the equilibrium results. Results show that the flow change can be five times more than that with less risk-averse travelers.

Keywords: target-oriented perspective; user equilibrium; travel time budget; excess delay; interaction; copula function; comonotonicity relationship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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