Evaluating the impact of waiting time reliability on route choice using smart card data

Evaluating the impact of waiting time reliability on route choice using smart card data

Shelat, S. (TU Delft Transport and Planning)
Cats, O. (TU Delft Transport and Planning)
van Oort, N. (TU Delft Transport and Planning)
van Lint, J.W.C. (TU Delft Transport and Planning)

Transport and Planning

2022

Unreliable waiting times may cause frustration and anxiety amongst public transport travellers. Although the effect of travel time reliability has been studied extensively, most studies have used stated preferences which have disadvantages, such as an inherent hypothetical bias, or have analysed revealed preferences for road traffic. Here, we derive revealed preferences from passively collected smart card data to analyse the role of waiting time reliability in public transport route choice. We study waiting time reliability as regular and irregular deviations from scheduled values, examining a number of indicators for the latter. Behaviour in morning peak and off-peak hours is contrasted and differences in reliability coefficients for different modes in the network, and for origin and transfer stops are reported. Results from The Hague indicate relatively low reliability ratios with travellers perceiving a 5-minute standard deviation in realised waiting times as an extra 1–5.6 min of planned waiting time.

Public transport
reliability
revealed preferences
smart card data
waiting time

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1e4dfc68-8609-4381-a172-ada5c1d99606

https://doi.org/10.1080/23249935.2022.2028929

2324-9935

Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, 19 (2)

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© 2022 S. Shelat, O. Cats, N. van Oort, J.W.C. van Lint