Travel choice adaptation through information provision: insights from a literature review
| publication year: | 2007 |
| full reference: | Chorus, C.G., Molin, E.J.E., van Wee, G.P.,. 2007. "Travel choice adaptation through information provision: insights from a literature review." In: Proceedings of the 86th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board. Washington DC, USA: TRB. |
| This paper aims at providing insights that help transport academics and policy makers appreciate the potentials and limitations of information provision as a travel demand measure to change 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 is derived, among which the following: it appears that our expectations with respect to the direct effects of information provision on travel choices should be mildly optimistic at best, especially concerning the potential effects on modal split. | |
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