IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/spochp/978-0-387-75857-2_3.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Random Utility Theory

In: Transportation Systems Analysis

Author

Listed:
  • Ennio Cascetta

    (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

Abstract

In Chap. 1 it was stated that transport flows result from the aggregation of individual trips. Each trip is the result of a number of choices made by transport system users: by travelers in the case of personal transport or by operators (manufacturers, shippers, carriers) in goods transport. Some choices are made infrequently, such as where to reside and work and whether to own a vehicle. Other choices are made for each trip; these include whether to make the trip, at what time, to what destination or destinations, by what mode, and using what path. Each choice context, defined by the available alternatives, evaluation factors, and decision procedures, is known as a “choice dimension.” In most cases, travel choices are made among a finite number of discrete alternatives.

Suggested Citation

  • Ennio Cascetta, 2009. "Random Utility Theory," Springer Optimization and Its Applications, in: Transportation Systems Analysis, chapter 0, pages 89-167, Springer.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:spochp:978-0-387-75857-2_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-75857-2_3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Joseph Rajabu Kangile & Reuben M. J. Kadigi & Charles Peter Mgeni & Bernadetha Pantaleo Munishi & Japhet Kashaigili & Pantaleo K. T. Munishi, 2021. "Dynamics of Coffee Certifications in Producer Countries: Re-Examining the Tanzanian Status, Challenges and Impacts on Livelihoods and Environmental Conservation," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 11(10), pages 1-18, September.
    2. H. Holly Wang & Lu Liu & David L. Ortega & Yu Jiang & Qiujie Zheng, 2020. "Are smallholder farmers willing to pay for different types of crop insurance? An application of labelled choice experiments to Chinese corn growers," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan;The Geneva Association, vol. 45(1), pages 86-110, January.
    3. Shatu, Farjana & Yigitcanlar, Tan & Bunker, Jonathan, 2019. "Shortest path distance vs. least directional change: Empirical testing of space syntax and geographic theories concerning pedestrian route choice behaviour," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 37-52.
    4. Baert, Midas & Kervyn, Matthieu & Kagou, Armand Dongmo & Guedjeo, Christian Suh & Vranken, Liesbet & Mertens, Kewan, 2020. "Resettlement preferences from landslide prone areas in Cameroon: Willingness to move, reasons to stay," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
    5. Jamil Hamadneh & Domokos Esztergár-Kiss, 2021. "The Influence of Introducing Autonomous Vehicles on Conventional Transport Modes and Travel Time," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(14), pages 1-28, July.
    6. Alimo, Philip Kofi & Agyeman, Stephen & Zankawah, Sanusi Mumuni & Yu, Chunhui & Cheng, Lin & Ma, Wanjing, 2022. "Factors causing low demand for a suburban passenger train in Sekondi-Takoradi," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 98(C).
    7. Farzad Safaeimanesh & Hasan Kılıç & Habib Alipour & Shahrzad Safaeimanesh, 2021. "Self-Service Technologies (SSTs)—The Next Frontier in Service Excellence: Implications for Tourism Industry," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(5), pages 1-21, March.
    8. Jorien Veldwijk & Mattijs S Lambooij & Esther W de Bekker-Grob & Henriëtte A Smit & G Ardine de Wit, 2014. "The Effect of Including an Opt-Out Option in Discrete Choice Experiments," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(11), pages 1-9, November.
    9. Zhang, Yu & Li, Leiming, 2022. "Research on travelers’ transportation mode choice between carsharing and private cars based on the logit dynamic evolutionary game model," Economics of Transportation, Elsevier, vol. 29(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:spochp:978-0-387-75857-2_3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.