As congestion worsens, the importance of rigorous methodologies to estimate travel time reliability increases. Exploiting fine-granularity transit GPS data, this research proposes a novel method to estimate travel time percentiles and confidence intervals. Novel transit reliability measures based on travel time percentiles are proposed to identify and rank low-performance hot spots; the proposed reliability measures can be utilized to distinguish peak-hour low performance from whole-day low performance. As a case study, the methodology is applied to a bus transit corridor in Portland, Oregon. Time–space speed profiles, heat maps, and visualizations are employed to highlight sections and intersections with high travel time variability and low transit performance. Segment and intersection travel time reliability are contrasted against analytical delay formulas at intersections—with positive results. If bus stop delays are removed, this methodology can also be applied to estimate regular traffic travel time variability.


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    Title :

    Traffic and Transit Travel Time Reliability Indexes and Confidence Intervals


    Subtitle :

    Novel Methodologies for the Corridor and Segment Levels


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2017-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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