Value of time and reliability for urban pooled on-demand services

The uptake of on-demand services is increasing rapidly all over the world. However, the market share of their pooled version (ridesharing, e.g., UberPOOL or LyftLine) is still low, despite its potential in addressing the mobility challenges that dense urban cities are facing. In this research, we analyse user preferences towards pooled on-demand...

Does conducting activities while traveling reduce the value of time? Evidence from a within-subjects choice experiment

Many studies about conducting activities while traveling start from the hypothesis that conducting onboard activities reduces the value of time (VoT). However, surprisingly limited empirical evidence is provided for this hypothesis. The few studies that aim at providing this evidence face methodological problems in the sense that effects...

Freight service network design with heterogeneous preferences for transport time and reliability

Value of time and value of reliability are two important user attributes that reflect shippers’ behavioral preferences, and as such influence the design of transport service networks. As shippers preferences will vary widely, it is important to consider these variations between users in the design of service networks. Up to now, network design...

Value of travel time changes: Theory and simulation to understand the connection between Random Valuation and Random Utility methods

This paper identifies and illustrates the theoretical connection between the Random Valuation (RV) and Random Utility (RU) methods for Value of Travel Time Changes (VTTC) analysis. The RV method has become more and more popular recently, and has been found to lead to very different estimation results than conventional RU models. Previous...