People are not â€˜rationalâ€™: An empirical study of the deviation between actual and shortest travel time paths

Few empirical studies of revealed route characteristics have been reported in the literature. This study challenges the widely applied shortest path assumption by evaluating routes followed by residents of the Minneapolis - St. Paul metropolitan area, as measured by the GPS Component of the 2011 Twin Cities Travel Behavior Inventory. It finds that most travelers used paths longer than the shortest path. Some reasons for this are conjectured.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Tang, Wenyun ; Levinson, David
Institutions:	Networks, Economics and Urban Systems Research Group (Nexus), University of Minnesota
Subject:	Rationality \| Route Choice \| User Equilibrium \| GPS Study \| Travel Behavior \| Networks

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 000125
Classification:	R40 - Transportation Systems. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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