Route Choice Efficiency: An Investigation of Home-To-Work Trips Using GPS Data Journal Articles

abstract

• This paper proposes a new way to study commuting efficiency based on the degree to which actual routes between places deviate from shortest paths. Factors influencing ‘route choice efficiency’ are investigated using a sample of home-based work trips obtained from the Space—Time Activity Research (STAR) survey, which was conducted in Halifax, Canada, between April 2007 and May 2008. The findings indicate that many drivers pursue suboptimal routes. Furthermore, the results from two ordered probit models reveal that sex, household size, work schedule, actual distance to work, distance to the central business district, travel time, and exposure to public transit are among the factors found to influence route choice efficiency.

authors

• Papinski, Dominik
• Scott, Darren

status

• published 

publication date

• February 2013

has subject area

• 1205 Urban and Regional Planning (FoR)
• 1402 Applied Economics (FoR)
• 1604 Human Geography (FoR)
• Geography (Science Metrix)

published in

• Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space  Journal

keywords

• Environmental Sciences & Ecology
• Environmental Studies
• Geography
• Halifax STAR (Space-Time Activity Research) survey
• Life Sciences & Biomedicine
• MODEL
• Science & Technology
• Social Sciences
• commuting efficiency
• excess commuting
• excess travel
• geographic information system
• global positioning system
• route choice
• shortest path
• travel behavior

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1068/a44545

start page

• 263

end page

• 275

volume

• 45

issue

• 2