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A GIS-based toolkit for route choice analysis

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  • Papinski, Dominik
  • Scott, Darren M.

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This paper develops and applies the route choice analysis (RCA) toolkit. This GIS-based toolkit generates a suite of over 40 variables describing route characteristics such as distance, travel time, speed statistics, number of intersections, number of turns, number of stop signs/stop lights, and a measure of route circuity, to name a few. The input to the toolkit is one or more routes, which can be obtained from global positioning system (GPS) data or some other means (e.g., shortest path). While the toolkit is designed to support route choice modeling by generating variables that have been tested in previous modeling efforts, we demonstrate its utility by testing the hypothesis that workers choose routes to minimize either travel time or distance between home and work. A GPS-enhanced data set of 237 observed routes for home-to-work trips collected for auto drivers in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada is used in our analysis. We find that the null hypothesis is refuted – that is, a comparison of observed routes to their shortest-path alternatives based on time and distance via inferential statistics indicates that observed routes are significantly longer compared to their alternatives. This finding suggests that workers may choose routes based on other route attributes. The attributes generated by the RCA toolkit for observed, shortest time, and shortest distance routes are compared and significant differences are noted.

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  • Papinski, Dominik & Scott, Darren M., 2011. "A GIS-based toolkit for route choice analysis," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 19(3), pages 434-442.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jotrge:v:19:y:2011:i:3:p:434-442
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2010.09.009
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