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  title info:
    title: Understanding and estimating the value travelers place on their trips on managed lanes
  name:
    name part: Patil, Sunil N.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Burris, Mark W.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Travelers' value of travel time savings (VTTS) are often used to estimate the benefits of transportation facilities, including managed lanes (MLs). With various eligibility criteria and time of day pricing on the MLs, the VTTS estimation is complicated. This is evident by the underestimation of VTTS on MLs in many of the previous studies. This study investigates stated preference (SP) survey design strategies and differentiating the VTTS for ordinary and some common urgent situations faced by the travelers in an attempt to improve on VTTS estimation on MLs. This study used three different survey design strategies (including a D-efficient design) in an internet based survey of Katy Freeway travelers. It was found that a random attribute level generation strategy, where the VTTS presented in the alternative was adjusted based on the answer to a previous SP question, performs better than the other two designs with respect to VTTS estimation and other survey design efficiency criteria. The analysis to differentiate the VTTS for ordinary and urgent trips was carried out using the state of art in the mixed logit model estimation. It was found that travelers value their travel time savings much more when facing most of these urgent situations rather than ordinary situations. Both peak and off-peak period travelers' VTTS were also found to be significantly greater when on urgent trips. Survey design attribute level ranges were found to significantly affect the VTTS estimation. Further, in order to understand the policy implications of these findings it was demonstrated that classifying all trips as ordinary can significantly underestimate the VTTS benefits offered by the MLs. Additionally, the VTTS of any urgent trips would be greatly underestimated. The study also demonstrated that many of the low and medium income group travelers on urgent trips can have VTTS greater than that of the highest VTTS traveler from the high income group on an ordinary trip. These findings have…
  note: by Sunil N. Patil.
  note: "Major Subject: Civil Engineering"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2011-02-28 11:02:00).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A&M University 2009 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7378
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major civil engineering
  subject:
    topic: Survey Design
  subject:
    topic: Managed Lanes
  subject:
    topic: Mixed Logit Model
  subject:
    topic: HOT lanes
  subject:
    topic: Value of Travel Time Savings
  subject:
    topic: D-efficiency
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7378
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 110309
    record change date: 20151202115719.0
    record identifier: in00002683180