A link based network route choice model with unrestricted choice set

Mogens Fosgerau; Emma Frejinger; Anders Karlstrom

doi:10.1016/j.trb.2013.07.012

A link based network route choice model with unrestricted choice set

Mogens Fosgerau, Emma Frejinger^*, Anders Karlstrom

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Economics

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Abstract

This paper considers the path choice problem, formulating and discussing an econometric random utility model for the choice of path in a network with no restriction on the choice set. Starting from a dynamic specification of link choices we show that it is equivalent to a static model of the multinomial logit form but with infinitely many alternatives. The model can be consistently estimated and used for prediction in a computationally efficient way. Similarly to the path size logit model, we propose an attribute called link size that corrects utilities of overlapping paths but that is link additive. The model is applied to data recording path choices in a network with more than 3000 nodes and 7000 links.

Original language	English
Journal	Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
Volume	56
Pages (from-to)	70-80
Number of pages	11
ISSN	0191-2615
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2013.07.012
Publication status	Published - 2013

Keywords

Discrete choice
Infinite choice set
Networks
Recursive logit
Route choice

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