Research highlights ► A unified approach is proposed to model heterogonous risk-taking behavior in route choice based on the theory of stochastic dominance (SD). ► Optimal paths for many existing reliability-based route choice models belong to one of the three SD-admissible path sets. ► SD-admissible path sets can be generated without having to enumerate all paths. ► A unified and computationally viable solution approach is proposed to generate SD-admissible path sets.

    Abstract This paper proposes a unified approach to modeling heterogonous risk-taking behavior in route choice based on the theory of stochastic dominance (SD). Specifically, the first-, second-, and third-order stochastic dominance (FSD, SSD, TSD) are respectively linked to insatiability, risk-aversion and ruin-aversion within the framework of utility maximization. The paths that may be selected by travelers of different risk-taking preferences can be obtained from the corresponding SD-admissible paths, which can be generated using general dynamic programming. This paper also analyzes the relationship between the SD-based approach and other route choice models that consider risk-taking behavior. These route choice models employ a variety of reliability indexes, which often make the problem of finding optimal paths intractable. We show that the optimal paths with respect to these reliability indexes often belong to one of the three SD-admissible path sets. This finding offers not only an interpretation of risk-taking behavior consistent with the SD theory for these route choice models, but also a unified and computationally viable solution approach through SD-admissible path sets, which are usually small and can be generated without having to enumerate all paths. A generic label-correcting algorithm is proposed to generate FSD-, SSD-, and TSD-admissible paths, and numerical experiments are conducted to test the algorithm and to verify the analytical results.


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    Titel :

    Modeling heterogeneous risk-taking behavior in route choice: A stochastic dominance approach


    Beteiligte:
    Wu, Xing (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2011-01-01


    Format / Umfang :

    20 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch






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