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Train Commuters' Scheduling Preferences: Evidence from a Large-Scale Peak Avoidance Experiment

Peer, Stefanie; Knockaert, Jasper; Verhoef, Erik - 2015

We study the trip scheduling preferences of train commuters in a real-life setting. The underlying data have been …

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Rounding of Arrival and Departure Times in Travel Surveys: An Interpretation in Terms of Scheduled Activities

Rietveld, Piet - 2001

In travel surveys most respondents apply rounding of departure andarrival times to multiples of 5, 15 and 30minutes: in the annual Dutch travel survey about 85-95 percent of allreported times are 'round' ones. We estimaterounding models for departure and arrival times. The model allows oneto...

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Travel Time Variability and Airport Accessibility

Koster, Paul; Kroes, Eric; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2010

time cost, scheduling cost and the cost of missing a flight. In this model, the value of reliability for air travelers is …

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Commuters' Preferences for Fast and Reliable Travel

Koster, Paul; Koster, Hans - 2013

Traffic congestion contributes to longer travel times and increased travel time variability. We account for the dynamic nature of travellers' choices, by deriving a closed-form solution for the costs of travel time variability. The resulting travel delay cost function is linear in the mean...

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The User Costs of Air Travel Delay Variability

Koster, Paul; Pels, Eric; Verhoef, Erik - 2013

We derive the expected user costs of US domestic air travel delay variability taking into account scheduling behavior … of travelers. Travelers do not only consider mean arrival delays, but also face scheduling costs because they arrive too …

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Hotelling Models with Price-Sensitive Demand and Asymmetric Transport Costs: An Application to Public Transport Scheduling

van der Weijde, Adriaan Hendrik; Verhoef, Erik T.; van … - 2012

context of transport scheduling. Two competitors choose fares and departure times in a fixed time interval. Consumers are …

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A general framework for scheduling equipment and manpower on container terminals

Hartmann, Sönke - 2002

In this paper, we propose a general model for various scheduling problems that occur in container terminal logistics …. The scheduling model consists of the assignment of jobs to resources and the temporal arrangement of the jobs subject to … real-world problems from container terminals in the port of Hamburg (Germany). We consider scheduling problems for straddle …

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