Travel information as an instrument to change cardrivers’ travel choices: A literature review

Travel information as an instrument to change cardrivers’ travel choices: A literature review

Chorus, C.G.
Molin, E.J.E.
Van Wee, B.

Technology, Policy and Management

Infrastructures, Systems and Services

2006-09-01

This paper aims to provide insights that help transport academics and policy makers appreciate the potentials and limitations of information provision as a means to changing car-drivers’ travel choices. The focus is on a modal shift from private car to public transport and changes in car-drivers’ choices for departure times and routes towards a more even distribution of traffic within the available road network. These insights are gained through a review of more than 15 years of literature concerning the use and effects of travel information among car-drivers. Based on the performed review, a number of generic, integrative insights are derived, including the following: it appears that our expectations with respect to the effects of information provision on travel choices in general may be mildly optimistic, particularly for behavioural changes not involving changes in mode-choice. In the longer term, the effects of information provision, when presented to travelers in suitable formats, are likely to be somewhat stronger than the short term effects, due to learning dynamics.

travel information
transport policy instruments
behavioural adaptation
literature review

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:098105c4-612e-4814-93b9-bcd34aa71d24

1567-7141

EJTIR, 6 (4), 2006

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