Behavioural and Network Impacts of Driver Information Systems

Originally published in 1999, this volume contains a systematic collection of both theoretical and applied studies on user information systems for road users. It is generally expected that reliable information offered to road users will improve the use of scarce capacity on transport networks but from a research perspective the question arises whether the provision of such hard and software will influence the behaviour of road users to such an extent that a more desirable traffic situation will emerge. The book contains European, American and Asian contributions and presents advances and findings in the field of theoretical, simulation and empricial models on driver information systems and behaviour, whilst also paying attention to the design of such systems.

1. Scope of Driver Information Systems Richard Emmerink and Peter Nijkamp Part A: Theoretical Models on Network Impacts of Driver Information 2. Effects of Driver Information in the Bottleneck Model Robin Lindsey 3. Modelling Dynamic Transportation Networks with Variational Inequalities Bin Ran and David Boyce 4. Information and Rational Expectations in Modelling Driver Information Systems: A Welfare Measurement Part B: Simulation Models and Drive Information Systems 5. Information in a Two-Route Network with Recurrent and Non-Recurrent Congestion Robert B. Noland 6. A Stochastic Process Model of Day-to-Day Traffic Assignment and InformationDavid Watling 7. Dynamic Simulation of a Simple Route Guidance System in the Presence of Responsive Signal Control Policies R. G. Clegg and M. J. Smith Part C: Empirical Models of Behavioral Change 8. Driver Information and the (De)formation of Habit in Route Choice Eric van Berkum and Peter van der Mede 9.Route Choice in Response to Variable Message Signs: Factors Affecting Compliance Peter W Bonsall and Ian A. Palmer 10. Experimental Analysis of Effects of Travel Time Information on Dynamic Route Choice Behaviour Yasunori Lida, Nobuhiro Uno and Tadashi Yamada 11. Impacts of Pre-trip and En-route Informatics on Commuters' Travel Decisions: Summary of Laboratory and Survey-based Experiments from California Ryoichi Kitamura, Paul P. Jovanis, Mohamed Abdel-Aty, Kenneth M. Vaughn and Purasuna Reddy 12. Designing ATIS for Familiar Drivers: Preliminary Behavioural Concepts Joseph L. Senofer, Frank S. Koppelman and William A. Charlton 13. Analysis of Drivers' Response to Information using Fuzzy Logic and Approximate Reasoning Models Haris N Koutsopoulos and Tsippy Loran 14.The Effect of Advanced Traveller Information Systems (ATIS) on Travellers' Behaviour Amalia Polydoropoulou and Moshe Ben-Akiva Part D: Design Aspects of Driver Information Systems 15. The Close Connection between Dynamic Traffic Management and Driver Information Systems Pier H.L. Bevy and NanneJ. van Der Zijpp 16. The Roles of Driver Information and Congestion Pricing David Bernstein and Ibrahim El Sanhouri 17.Probe-based Surveillance for Travel Time Information in ITS Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah, Asish Sen and Alan Karr

Richard Emmerink and Peter Nijkamp