This paper examines the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on travel time reliability (TTR) performance on two high traffic volume freeway corridors (I-90 and I-405) in the U.S.A. Specifically, the travel time distributions (TTDs) during and before the pandemic are compared. The paper also examines which TTR metrics best capture the effect of the pandemic on reliability performance. There were statistically significant differences, at the 95% confidence level, between TTD in 2020 and corresponding TTDs in 2018 and 2019. Not surprisingly, all measures of central tendency and all measures of dispersions were reduced during the pandemic. Consequently, it was concluded that TTR performance improved during the pandemic regardless of what TTR definition was used. Travel time index (TTI), planning time index (PTI), and the level of travel time reliability (LOTTR) metrics improved during the pandemic, albeit at different rates. In contrast, the buffer index and coefficient of variation increased. In other words, whether an analyst would identify that TTR improved or decreased during the pandemic, and by how much, would be a function of which TTR metric was applied. Not surprisingly, the more congested the roadway section, the greater the impact the pandemic-related interventions had on TTR. It was found that, practically speaking, there are no differences in TTI, PTI, or LOTTR values when TTDs are formulated using a 5 min or 15 min aggregation interval. It was concluded that analysts need to have a deep understanding of the underlying TTD and the various TTR definitions when evaluating changes in freeway systems’ TTR.


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    Titel :

    High Volume Freeway Travel Time Reliability and the COVID-19 Pandemic


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


    Beteiligte:
    Tufuor, Ernest (Autor:in) / Rilett, Laurence (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    05.05.2022




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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