Bicyclist route choice: Data exploration and research project outline

Luk Knapen*, Thomas Koch, Elenna Dugundji

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Abstract

Microsimulation of travel flows aims to assess the effect of decisions taken by travelers based on personal preferences, time-of-day, properties of the infrastructure and expected or perceived travel flows. Route choice represents a particular class of such decisions. Route choice prediction is an essential component of microsimulators. Specification of choice models and estimation of the corresponding parameters based on observations are required in the preparatory stage. Route choice sets need to be established for sampling in the simulation stage. This paper is part of a research project aiming to investigate how route complexity can be integrated in the choice process modeling. In particular routes for bikers collected by GPS tracking in the Dutch FietsTelWeek project in 2016 are analyzed. The data exploration stage and the research project outline are covered. Properties of the publicly available fietstelweek2016 dataset used for model training are investigated in order to assess their effect on prediction results. In order to achieve the project goal, the research project structure is briefly discussed. It is based on the observation that the number of routes recorded for each OD-pair is too small to observe a frequency distribution for complexity. Hence, complexity data are collected for sub-networks that are similar with respect to particular graph properties.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)401-408
Number of pages8
JournalProcedia Computer Science
Volume151
Early online date21 May 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event10th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies, ANT 2019 and The 2nd International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry 4.0, EDI40 2019, Affiliated Workshops - Leuven, Belgium
Duration: 29 Apr 20192 May 2019

Bibliographical note

Part of special issue: The 10th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2019) / The 2nd International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry 4.0 (EDI40 2019) / Affiliated Workshops. Edited by Elhadi Shakshuki

Funding

The research received funding from STAR Cluster, The Netherlands.

FundersFunder number
Star Scientific Foundation

    Keywords

    • Bicycle
    • Choice set
    • GPS traces
    • Route

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