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- Title
UNCOVERING THE DISTRIBUTION OF MOTORISTS' PREFERENCES FOR TRAVEL TIME AND RELIABILITY.
- Authors
Small, Kenneth A.; Winston, Clifford; Yan, Jia
- Abstract
We apply recent econometric advances to study the distribution of commuters' preferences for speedy and reliable highway travel. Our analysis applies mixed logit to combined revealed and stated preference data on commuter choices of whether to pay a toll for congestion-free express travel. We find that motorists exhibit high values of travel time and reliability, and substantial heterogeneity in those values. We suggest that road pricing policies designed to cater to such varying preferences can improve efficiency and reduce the disparity of welfare impacts compared with recent pricing experiments.
- Subjects
ECONOMETRICS; COMMUTERS; AUTOMOTIVE transportation; ROADS; TRAVEL time (Traffic engineering); TRAFFIC surveys
- Publication
Econometrica, 2005, Vol 73, Issue 4, p1367
- ISSN
0012-9682
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0262.2005.00619.x