Travel Behavior

CarLink—A Smart Carsharing System

Shaheen, Susan A.
1999

CarLink is the use of short-term rental vehicles and intelligent communication and reservation technologies to facilitate shared vehicle access at transit stations or other activity centers for making local trips. CarLink vehicles, owned and operated by a transit district or third-party service provider, can be used by different drivers at many locations throughout a day. Using advanced communication and reservation system technologies, they can be reserved in advance or rented automatically upon arrival at a CarLink...

EasyConnect: Low-Speed Modes Linked to Transit Planning Project

Shaheen, Susan A. PhD
Rodier, Caroline J. PhD
2006

The EasyConnect Low-Speed Modes Linked to Transit Planning Project (TO 5113) project represents the integration of innovative strategies to enhance transit use during the development and construction of a suburban transit oriented development at the Pleasant Hill Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District station in the East San Francisco Bay Area. This planning project brings together a unique partnership including small technology businesses, transportation agencies, city and county government, and academia. The project components include the introduction of shared-use low speed mode...

Travinfo Evaluation Plan

Yim, Youngbin
Khattak, Asad
Miller, Mark
Hall, Randolf
1993

This document presents an evaluation plan for the TravInfo project, a field operational test of a centralized database in the San Francisco Bay Area. The TravInfo Evaluation Plan is prepared in accordance with the Mitre guidelines adopted by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for IVHS Operational Test Evaluation Plans. The report consists of five major sections: introduction, traveler response component, institutional component, technology assessment, and system evaluation.

User Response to the Telephone Advisory Traveler Information System in the San Francisco Bay Area: Based on TravInfo Caller Survey Wave 1

Ygnace, Jean-Luc
Koo, Ronald
Yim, Youngbin
2000

This paper presents the findings of a survey conducted among callers of a San Francisco BayArea telephone information service. A Bay Area traveler information system, TravInfo, has beenin operation since September 1996. In April 1997, a survey of TravInfo callers was conductedover a two-week period. The paper compares the call making and demographic characteristics ofthose who asked for traffic information and of those who asked for transit information. Changesin travel behavior after the calls were made were also investigated. The key findings of the studywere that the people who called...