Short-term Choice of Travelers with Effect of Traffic Information

Abstract The travel information system strengths the relationship between travel and transportation system, which makes the activity-travel decision as a dynamic adjust process. After analyzing the travel demand change with the effect of information, the paper focuses on the short term choice of travelers. Based on the SP survey data of Jilin city, it discusses the interaction among depart time, travel mode, and route choice decision behavior. Considering the influence factors such as the of travelers attitudes, the study quantitatively analyzes the inner relationship of route choice behavior using Bivariate Probit model. The results show that the travel mode choice strongly influence the departure time or route choice, and the route choice is independent relatively. These fundamental works provide some knowledge to further process in the research of the traveler's behavior and provide some valuable advises to transportation programming and management.