An Agent-based Model of Retail Location Choice with Complementary Goods (2009)
Abstract. This paper examines the emergence of retail clusters on a supply chain network comprised of suppliers, retailers, and consumers. An agent-based model is proposed to investigate retail...
Framework for Analyzing Effects of Spring Load Restrictions (2009)
David Levinson, Ning Li, Xi Zou, Brian Smalkoski, Maryam Hashami
Spring load restrictions (SLR) impose restrictions on heavy trucks during the spring thaw period. Although the policies have been implemented for many years, their economic effects on truckers remain...
Network Circuity and the Location of Home and Work (2009)
David Levinson, Ahmed El-geneidy
In an urban context people travel between places of residence and work destinations via transportation networks. Transportation studies that involve measurements of distances between residence and...
David Levinson, Kathleen Harder, John Bloomfield, Kasia Winiarczyk, Deceased D. Levinson, ...
Experiments are described in which traditional computer-administered stated-preference (SP) data are compared with virtual experience SP data to ascertain how people value stopped delay compared with...
Modeling Intersection Driving Behaviors: A Hidden Markov Model Approach (I) (2009)
Driving behaviors at intersection are complex because drivers have to perceive more traffic events than normal road driving and thus are exposed to more errors with safety consequences. Drivers make...
David Levinson, Yao Wu, Peter Rafferty, David Levinson
The Rational Locator Hypothesis posits that individuals can, if they choose, maintain approximately steady journey-to-work travel times by adjusting their home and workplace. This hypothesis was...
Mogush, Krizek, and Levinson Page 1 The Value of Trail Access on Home Purchases (2009)
Paul Mogush, Kevin J. Krizek, David Levinson
corresponding author 4787 words + 3 tables + 3 figures = 6,287 words We use hedonic analysis of home sales data from the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area to estimate the effects of access of different...
DELAYER PAYS PRINCIPLE Examining Congestion Pricing with Compensation (2009)
David Levinson, Peter Rafferty
Work: 612.625.6354
Home or Office: Technology, Attitude, and At-Home Work (2009)
This paper examines the influence of technology and employer attitude on the decision to work at home. Using data from a suburban Washington household travel survey, it is found that both technology...
Chen-fu Liao, Henry Liu, David Levinson, Corresponding Liao
Word Count: Body text (5,662) + 7 Figures and Tables (7x250=1,750) = 7,412
RAMACHANDRA KARAMALAPUTI Capital One (2009)
This paper examines new highway construction based on the status of the network, traffic demand, project costs, and budget constraints. The data span two decades and consist of descriptions of...
settings. MODELS OF TRANSPORTATION AND LAND USE CHANGE: A GUIDE (2009)
Michael Iacono, David Levinson, Associate Professor, Ahmed El-geneidy
Modern urban regions are highly complex entities. Despite the difficulty of modeling every relevant aspect of an urban region, researchers have produced a rich variety models dealing with...
VEHICLE-BASED INTERSECTION MANAGEMENT WITH INTELLIGENT AGENTS (2009)
Signal-based intersection management will change when vehicles with intelligent capability are available in the future. Intelligent agents embedded in vehicle software will be responsible for vehicle...
Chen-fu Liao, David Levinson, Corresponding Liao
Traditionally, students use pencil and ruler to lay out lines and curves over contour maps for roadway geometry design. Numerous calculations of stopping sight distance, minimum turning radius, and...
Full Cost of Air Travel in the California Corridor (2009)
The theoretical and empirical literature on the cost structure of the provision of air transportation is reviewed, and cost functions for air travel in the California corridor are specified and...
DRAFT – FOR REVIEW ONLY (2009)
Between 1900 and 2000, the length of paved roads in the United States increased from 240 km to 6,400,000 km (Peat 2002, BTS 2002) with virtually 100 % of the U.S. population having almost immediate...
States Toll: An Empirical Model of Finance Choice (2009)
This paper examines the question of why some states impose tolls while others rely more heavily on fuel and other taxes. A model to predict the share of street and highway revenue from tolls is...
I-35W Bridge Collapse: Travel Impacts and Adjustment Strategies (2009)
Nebiyou Tilahun, David Levinson
On August 1 st, 2007, the I-35W bridge crossing the Mississippi river collapsed. In addition to the human tragedy that it caused, the bridge failure also impacted how people moved. The bridge on...
Rania Wasfi, David Levinson, Ahmed El-geneidy
In the year 2000 Over 208,000 residents of Hennepin County, Minnesota were over the age of 55, a number that is sure to rise. This paper reports the major findings from a study conducted to assess...
Traffic Equilibration: The Case of the Twin Cities Ramp Meter Shut Off (2009)
In Fall 2000, more than 430 ramp meters in the Twin Cities metropolitan area were shut down in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the metering system. This shutdown disturbed normal traffic...
published in Journal of the American Planning Association, Fall 1995 (2009)
This paper analyzes 1968 and 1987-88 metropolitan Washington, DC household travel surveys to understand the daily allocation of time among different activities of individuals classified by work...
PAYING FOR THE FIXED COSTS OF ROADS (2009)
This paper explores alternative financing mechanisms to pay for the fixed costs of roads, particularly in cases without rising marginal costs. Mechanisms considered include tolls, gas taxes, and...
13. A Framework for Assessing (2009)
David Levinson, Reinaldo C. Garcia, Kathy Carlson
Road used to belong to the State of California and now is called Fairlanes, Inc. Rte. CSV-5. Its main competition used to be a U.S. Highway and is now called Cruiseways, Inc. Rte. Cal-12. Farther up...
Home Relocation and the Journey to Work (2009)
Nebiyou Tilahun, David Levinson
Relocation decisions are complex. Each household has a bundle of attributes that make a location attractive to it, including the ability to access different activity locations easily, neighborhood...
An agent-based approach to travel demand modeling: An exploratory analysis (2009)
An agent-based travel demand model is developed in which travel demand emerges from the interactions of three types of agents in the transportation system: node, arc, and traveler. Simple local rules...
Simulation and Analysis of Mixed Adaptive Cruise Control / Manual Traffic (2009)
Semi-automated vehicles, such as Adaptive (Intelligent) Cruise Control (ACC) Vehicles, with the capability to follow each other in the same lane, will coexist with manually driven vehicles on the...
Xin, Wuping and D. Levinson (2007) Stochastic congestion and pricing model with endogenous departure time selection and heterogeneous travelers
David King, Kevin J. Krizek, David Levinson
The intersection of land use and transportation policy is an important focus for all urban planners. This focus challenges the academic community to design effective courses that teach the concepts...
transportation networks:
TRAVEL TIME VARIABILITY AFTER A SHOCK: THE CASE OF THE TWIN CITIES RAMP METER SHUT OFF (2009)
Ramp meters in the Twin Cities were turned off for 8 weeks in the Fall of 2000. This paper analyzes traffic data collected in this experiment on travel time variability with and without ramp metering...
Abstract: In order to maintain and improve road infrastructure in their respective jurisdictions, the state (the Minnesota DOT), region (the Metropolitan Council), and seven counties in the Twin...
Value of Information for Transit Riders (2009)
Brendan Nee, Dr. David Levinson, Brendan Nee, Brendan Nee
Transit information systems are crucial for informing riders of their location, destination, and arrival time. After reviewing and classifying the various types of transit information systems, an...
Journal of Maps, 2006, 76-87 Mapping Accessibility Over Time (2009)
Ahmed El-geneidy, David Levinson
Abstract: This study compares the changes in levels of accessibility over time in the Minneapolis- St. Paul region using two different modes (car and public transport). The importance of...
Network Neutrality: Lessons from Transportation (2009)
The politically-charged notion of network neutrality came to the fore in the first decade of the 21st century, using analogy from transportation as one of the key tools in motivating arguments. This...
Network Neutrality: Lessons from Transportation (2009)
The politically-charged notion of network neutrality came to the fore in the first decade of the 21st century, using analogy from transportation as one of the key tools in motivating arguments. This...
Network Neutrality: Lessons from Transportation (2009)
The politically-charged notion of network neutrality came to the fore in the first decade of the 21st century, using analogy from transportation as one of the key tools in motivating arguments. This...
Network Neutrality: Lessons from Transportation (2009)
The politically-charged notion of network neutrality came to the fore in the first decade of the 21st century, using analogy from transportation as one of the key tools in motivating arguments. This...
David Levinson, Ahmed El-geneidy
Modern urban regions are highly complex entities. Despite the difficulty of modeling every relevant aspect of an urban region, researchers have produced a rich variety of models dealing with...
DETECTING THE BREAKDOWN OF TRAFFIC Submission Date: July 12, 2002 Word count: 6537 words. (2008)
Timely traffic prediction is important in advanced traffic management systems to make possible rapid and effective response by traffic control facilities. From the observations of traffic flow, the...
PLACE RANK: A NEW ACCESSIBILITY MEASURE (2008)
Ahmed El-geneidy, David Levinson
Accessibility is the potential of opportunities for interaction in an urban context. The widely used accessibility measure consists of the number of opportunities that can be reached within a region...
Operating Costs for Trucks (2008)
David Levinson, Michael Corbett, Maryam Hashami, David Levinson
This study estimates the operating costs for commercial vehicle operators in Minnesota. A survey of firms that undertake commercial truck road movements was performed. The average operating cost per...
1) Title: An Economic Evaluation of Freeway Service Patrols. (2008)
David Levinson, Pavithra K, Adai Parthasarathi, David Levinson
Abstract--Highway assistance services, also called the freeway service patrols (FSPs), are one of the main approaches used by incident management programs. The objective of this study was to...
Density and dispersion: the co-development of land use and rail in London (2008)
This article examines the changes that occurred in the rail network and density of population in London during the 19th and 20th centuries. It aims to disentangle the ‘chicken and egg’ problem of...
Post-Construction Evaluation of Traffic Forecast Accuracy (2008)
Pavithra Parthasarathi, David Levinson
This research evaluates the accuracy of demand forecasts using a sample of recently-completed projects in Minnesota and identifies the factors influencing the inaccuracy in forecasts. The forecast...
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BY (2008)
Ryan Donald Wilson, David Levinson, Julian Marshall, Ryan Donald Wilson
This is to certify that I have examined this copy of a master’s thesis by
Predicting Land Use Change: How Much Does Transportation Matter? (2008)
Michael Iacono, David Levinson
In this paper, we propose to measure the extent of the influence of transportation systems on land use change. Using a set of high-resolution land use data for the Twin Cities metropolitan region, we...
A Review of Research on Planned and Unplanned Disruptions to Transportation Networks (2008)
Travel decisions may be very stable in an environment with which they are familiar. Major network disruptions such as the I-35W bridge collapse disrupt habitual behavior. Such “natural ”...
Review of Methods for Estimating the Economic Impact of Transportation Improvements (2008)
Michael Iacono, David Levinson
Transportation analysts and the public decision-makers they support are confronted with a broad range of analytical tools for estimating the economic impacts of improvements to transportation...
This study evaluates the effects of I-35W bridge collapse on road-users in the Twin-Cities metropolitan area. We adopted the Twin-Cities (Metropolitan Minneapolis and St. Paul) Seven-County travel...
The effects of daylight saving time on vehicle crashes in Minnesota (2008)
Daylight saving time (DST), implemented as an energy saving policy, impacts many other aspects of life; one is road safety. Based on ten-year vehicle crash data in Minnesota, this paper evaluates...
The traffic and behavioral effects of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse (2008)
Shanjiang Zhu, David Levinson, Henry Liu, Kathleen Harder
The collapse, on August 1, 2007, of the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, abruptly interrupted the usual route of about 140,000 daily vehicle trips and substantially disturbed...
The full cost of high-speed rail: an engineering approach (2007)
David Levinson, Jean Michel Mathieu, David Gillen, Adib Kanafani
Abstract. This paper examines the full costs, defined as the sum of private and social costs, of a high-speed rail system proposed for a corridor connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco in...
Deploying Electronic Tolls A Model for Optimizing Electronic Toll Collection Systems (2007)
Elva Chang, David Levinson, David Levinson
This paper examines the deployment of electronic toll collection (ETC) and develops a model to maximize social welfare associated with a toll plaza. A payment choice model estimates the share of...
Traffic Equilibration: The Case of the Twin Cities Ramp Meter Shut Off (2007)
In Fall 2000, more than 430 ramp meters in the Twin Cities metropolitan area were shut down in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the metering system. This shutdown disturbed normal traffic...
An Economic Evaluation of Freeway Service (2007)
Pavithra K, Adai Parthasarathi, David Levinson, David Levinson
Abstract--Highway assistance services, also called the freeway service patrols (FSPs), are one of the main approaches used by incident management programs. The objective of this study was to...
The Full Cost of Air Travel in the California Corridor (2007)
Author(s) David Gillen, David Gillen, David Levinson, David Levinson
Duplication of this preprint for publication or sale
States Toll: An Empirical Model of Finance Choice (2007)
This paper examines the question of why some states impose tolls while others rely more heavily on gas and other taxes. A model to predict the share of street and highway revenue from tolls is...
Levinson and Karamalaputi Predicting Network Expansion (2007)
Ra Karamalaputi, David Levinson, David Levinson, Ramachandra Karamalaputi
This paper examines the growth of a network based on the present conditions of the network, traffic demand, other demographic characteristics, project costs, and a budget constraint. The effects of...
home (address mail here): (2007)
David Levinson, David M. Levinson, David M. Levinson
The contents of this report reflect the views of the authors who are responsible for the facts and the accuracy of the data presented herein. The contents do not necessarily reflect the official...
NOT FOR CITATION OR DISTRIBUTION (2007)
This paper considers the engineer’s, economist’s, manager’s, and planner’s perspectives on efficiency for transportation respectively. This paper examines the measures used in each...
Tolling at a Frontier Tolling at a Frontier: A Game Theoretic Analysis Abstract: (2007)
Frontiers provide an opportunity for one jurisdiction to remedy inequities (and even exploit them) in highway finance by employing toll-booths, and thereby ensuring the highest possible share of...
Road Pricing and Compensation for Delay (2007)
The equity issues facing congestion pricing are an impediment to its adoption. A criticism that gets very little attention is that not only does a toll road enable some to buy their way out of...
1 Monitoring Infrastructure Capacity (2007)
Infrastructure providers face the challenge of serving development as the cost of new capacity and connections rises. While private sector utilities are required by law to serve development in a...
David Levinson, Andrew Odlyzko
communication
David Levinson, Andrew Odlyzko
Abstract. Technology appears to be making fine-scale charging (as in tolls on roads that depend on time of day or even on current and anticipated levels of congestion) increasingly feasible. And such...
1 Economics of Road Network Ownership (2007)
This paper explores the economic impact of alternative ownership structures on transportation system performance, social welfare, and regulatory needs. Road pricing, investment, and ownership...
Does First Last? The existence and extent of first mover advantages on spatial networks (2007)
This paper examines the nature of first mover advantages on spatiallydifferentiated surface transportation networks. The literature on first mover advantages identifies a number of sources that...
An Agent-based Route Choice Model (2007)
Shanjiang Zhu, David Levinson, Lei Zhang
Travel demand emerges from individual decisions. These decisions, depending on individual objectives, preferences, experiences and spatial knowledge about travel, are both heterogeneous and...
Shanjiang Zhu, Feng Xie, David Levinson
This research explores the effectiveness of using simulation as a tool for enhancing classroom learning in the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities. The authors...
Forecasting and Evaluating Network Growth (2007)
This research assesses the implications of existing trends on future network investment, comparing alternative scenarios concerning budgets and investment rules. The main scenarios compare stated...
Density and Dispersion: The Co-Development of Land use and Rail in (2007)
This paper examines the changes that occurred in the rail network and density of population in London during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It aims to disentangle the ”chicken and egg ”...
Forecasting and Evaluating Network Growth (2006)
Levinson, David, Xie, Feng, Montes De Oca, Norah
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Network Neutrality: Lessons from Transportation (2006)
The politically-charged notion of network neutrality came to the fore in 2005 and 2006, using analogy from transportation as one of the key tools in motivating arguments. This paper examines how the...
Network expansion decisionmaking in the twin cities (2006)
This paper presents a qualitative analysis of the decision-rules used by jurisdictions in Minnesota’s Twin Cities metropolitan area. Interviews were conducted with staff at the city, county,...
A MULTI-AGENT CONGESTION AND PRICING MODEL (2006)
A multi-agent model of travelers competing to utilize a roadway in time and space is presented in this paper to illustrate the effect of congestion and pricing on traveler behaviors and network...
Using consistent agent-based techniques, this research models the decision-making processes of users and infrastructure owner/operators to explore the welfare consequence of price competition,...
Spatial networks display both topologic and geometric variations in their structure. This study investigates the measurement of road network structure. Existing measures of heterogeneity,...
MEASURING THE TRANSPORTATION NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES (2006)
Rania Wasfi, David Levinson, Ahmed El-geneidy
The US Department of Health and Human Services Administration on Development Disabilities estimates the number of people diagnosed with a developmental disability in the United States as 4.5 million...
David Levinson, Bhanu Yerra, David Levinson, Bhanu Yerra
This research investigates the self-organization of surface transportation networks. Using a travel demand model coupled with revenue, cost, and investment models, experiments are run under a variety...
David Levinson, Ewa Zofka, David Levinson, Ewa Zofka
This paper summarizes research on standards for archiving travel survey data. It then describes some of the efforts at organizing data and developing metadata. The development of metadata standards...
Determinants of Route Choice and the Value of Traveler Information: A Field Experiment (2005)
A major strategy of federal ITS initiatives and state departments of transportation is to provide traveler information to motorists through various means, including variable message signs, the...
Road pricing with autonomous links (2005)
This research seeks to examine road pricing on a network of autonomous highway links. “Autonomous ” refers to the links ’ being competitive and independent and having the objective of...
Paving new ground: A markov chain model of the change in transportation networks and land use (2005)
This paper explores the inter-connectedness and co-evolution of transportation networks and land use through the application of a Markov Chain model. This model investigates how individual cells,...
David Levinson, Bhanu Yerra, David Levinson, Bhanu Yerra
The present research develops a model to treat the organization, growth, and contraction of network elements. The components of the model include travel demand, revenue, cost, and investment. Revenue...
Some properties of flows at freeway bottlenecks (2004)
The capacity of a freeway segment should be measured only when it is an active bottleneck. The properties of flows at active freeway bottlenecks have a bearing on both the definition of capacity and...
A Queuing and Statistical Analysis of Freeway Bottleneck Formation (2004)
A modified approach to treat traffic flow parameters (flow, density and speed) has been introduced in this paper. A queuing analysis has been conducted on traffic flow data on Interstate 94 in the...
Variation of the Subjective Value of Travel Time on Freeways and Ramp Meters (2004)
Lei Zhang, Feng Xie, David Levinson
This paper explores drivers ’ subjective value of time under moving and stopped freeway travel conditions using a stated preference survey. Unlike previous studies that assume a constant value of...
Evaluating effectiveness of ramp meters: Evidence from the Twin Cities ramp meter shut-off (2004)
Ramp meters in the Twin Cities have been turned off for eight weeks in Fall 2000 in an experiment testing their effectiveness. This chapter analyzes the data collected during the experiment on...
Pricing, Investment, and Network Equilibrium (2004)
Despite rapidly emerging innovative road pricing and investment principles, the development of a long run network dynamics model for necessary policy evaluation is still lagging. This research...
Keywords Empirical data and statistical models are used to answer the question of where the new highway routes are most likely to be located. High-quality land-use, population distribution and...
Alternative transportation investment policies can lead to very different network forms in the future. The desirability of a transportation network should be assessed not only by its economic...
FOR REVIEW & COMMENT, NOT FOR CITATION OR DISTRIBUTION (2004)
This paper develops congestion theory and congestion pricing theory from its microfoundations, the interaction of two or more vehicles. Using game theory, with a twoplayer game it is shown that the...
Encyclopedia of Community : From the Village to the Virtual World (2003)
Christensen, Karen (ed.), Levinson, David (ed.)
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David Levinson, David Levinson
Over the next few years, driver behavior should become more informed with the advent and deployment of in-vehicle navigation systems. This paper analyzes systems that provide the driver the fastest...
THE EMERGENCE OF HIERARCHY IN TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS (2003)
Bhanu Murali, Krishna Yerra, Advisor Dr, David Levinson
I would like to sincerely thank my adviser Dr. David Levinson for his excellent guidance and support though out my graduate study. I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to my parents for their...
Optimal Freeway Ramp Control without Origin- Destination Information (2003)
This paper develops an analytical framework for ramp metering, under which various ramp control strategies can be viewed as ramifications of the same most-efficient control logic with different...
Relationships between ramp metering and sprawl (2003)
This paper explores impacts of ramp metering on urban land use. A regression-based transportation model is developed to capture changes in accessibility caused by ramp metering on a highway network....
Teaching Integrated Land Use-Transportation Planning: Topics, Readings, and Strategies (2003)
Kevin J. Krizek, David M. Levinson, Kevin Krizek, David Levinson
Planning pedagogy is increasingly focused on ways to teach interdisciplinary topics in an integrated and synergistic manner. The intersection of land use and transportation represent two topics that,...
A model of the rise and fall of roads (2003)
Transportation network planning decisions made at one point of time can have profound impacts in the future. However, transportation networks are usually assumed to be static in models of land use. A...
A new freeway ramp control objective – minimizing total weighted travel time is presented in this study. This new objective function is capable of balancing efficiency and equity of ramp meters,...
in The Future of Automated Freight Transport: Concepts, Design and Implementation. (2003)
Ed. Rob Konings, Peter Nijkamp, Hugo Peimus, Edward Elgar, David Levinson, Xi Zou, ...
New technologies are bringing Automated Freight Systems (AFS), which aim to reduce congestion, mitigate environmental impacts and enhance public safety, to fruition. The financing and deployment...
The objective of this study is to determine whether ramp meters increase the capacity of active freeway bottlenecks, and if they do, how. The traffic flow characteristics at twenty-seven active...
Highway costs and the efficient mix of state and local funds (2002)
Transportation networks and governments are both hierarchically organized. In some states state government finances most of the highways, while in other states similar roads are financed locally....
The Evolution Of Transport Networks (2002)
INTRODUCTION Between 1900 and 2000, the length of paved roads in the United States increased from 240 km to 6,400,000 km (Peat 2002, BTS 2002) with virtually 100% of the U.S. population having almost...
The effectiveness of Variable Messages Signs (VMS) on route guidance is assessed by a discrete probit choice model that estimates the proportion of vehicles that diverts to an alternative routes...
Traffic Management Systems, David Levinson, Wei Chen, D. Levinson
1. Assistant Professor, 2. Research Assistant This study uses regression analysis to evaluate long-run traffic management system performance. Three important traffic management systems in the Twin...
The economics of traveler information from probes (2002)
This paper examines the economics of traveler information from probe vehicles. Probes differ from permanently installed roadway detection devices both because they provide less current information...
www.elsevier.com/locate/tra A model for optimizing electronic toll collection systems (2002)
This paper examines the deployment of electronic toll collection (ETC) and develops a model to maximize social welfare associated with a toll plaza. A payment choice model estimates the share of...
Identifying Winners and Losers in Transportation (2002)
The issues surrounding transportation equity, both external and internal to transportation, are explored. Several examples are provided of transportation improvements that impose transportation costs...
David Levinson, Andrew Odlyzko
Abstract. Technology appears to be making fine-scale charging (as in tolls on roads that depend on time of day or even on current and anticipated levels of congestion) increasingly feasible. And such...
Highway costs and the efficient mix of state and local funds (2002)
Governments and transportation networks are both hierarchically organized. Some state governments finance most of their highways, whereas in other states similar roads are financed locally. Larger...
Levinson, David, Parthasarathi, Pavithra Kandadai
The goal of our report is to determine the value that people place on the benefits offered by freeway service patrols in comparison to private assistance services and how much they would be willing...
Political Economy of Private Roads Levinson The Political Economy of Private Roads (2001)
This book reflects the increasing interest in the United States and elsewhere in road
The equity issues facing congestion pricing are an impediment to its adoption. A criticism that gets very little attention is that not only does a toll road enable some to buy their way out of...
PERSPECTIVES ON EFFICIENCY IN TRANSPORTATION (2001)
This paper considers the engineer’s, economist’s, manager’s, and planner’s perspectives on efficiency for transportation respectively. This paper examines the measures used in each...
Whence Induced Demand: How Access Affects Activity (2000)
Levinson, David, Kanchi, Seshasai
Additional highway capacity, by increasing travel speed, affects the individual share of time within a 24-hour budget allocated to various activities (time spent at and traveling to home, shop, work...
Deploying Electronic Tolls (2000)
This paper examines the deployment of electronic toll collection (ETC) and develops a model to maximize social welfare associated with the toll plaza.
Monitoring Infrastructure Capacity (2000)
Infrastructure providers face the challenge of serving development as the cost of new capacity and connections rises. While private sector utilities are required by law to serve development in a...
David Levinson, Ra Karamalaputi
This paper examines the growth of a highway network based on the present and historical conditions of the network, traffic demand, demographic characteristics, project costs, and budget. The effects...
An Economic Analysis Of Network Deployment And Application To Road Pricing (1998)
This paper develops an economic framework for developing strategies necessary to deploy networks, and applies the framework to the deployment of road pricing. The cost structure of highways are...
submitted to Transportation Quarterly corresponding author: (1998)
David Levinson, Adib Kanafani, David Gillen, David Levinson
This study evaluates the full cost of three modes of intercity transportation: air, highway, and high speed rail for the California Corridor, connecting the Los Angeles Basin and the San Francisco...
Tolling at a Frontier Tolling at a Frontier: A Game Theoretic Analysis (1998)
Frontiers provide an opportunity for one jurisdiction to remedy inequities (and even exploit them) in highway finance by employing toll-booths, and thereby ensuring the highest possible share of...
Case Study: Road Pricing In Practice (1997)
This report examines the history of turnpikes. It attempts to present an understanding of the reasons behind the decline and restoration of turnpikes. It also develops evidence for an explanatory...
Levinson, David, Gillen, David, Kanafani, Adib, Mathieu, Jean-michel
The Full Cost of Intercity Transportation Page ES-1 This study evaluates the full cost of three modes of intercity transportation: air, highway, and high speed rail. The evaluation is done within the...
THE LIMITS TO GROWTH MANAGEMENT: Development Regulation in Montgomery County, Maryland (1996)
This paper reviews and critiques the growth management system in Montgomery County, Maryland with the intent of finding generalizable lessons. An overview of the twenty year old system is followed by...
Activity, Travel, and the Allocation of Time (1995)
This paper analyzes 1968 and 1987-88 metropolitan Washington, DC household travel surveys to understand the daily allocation of time among different activities of individuals classified by work...
This research develops and applies a new structure for the transportation planning model that includes feedback between demand, assignment, and traffic control. New methods, combined with a renewed...
Temporal Variations on the Allocation of Time (1994)
This study investigates the allocation of time and trip-making across timeof-day, day-of-week, and month-of-year, as well as over the past forty years. Some interesting findings result. People are...
CHAINED TRIPS IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND submitted to ITE Journal (1994)
This paper analyzes the 1987-88 Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments home interview survey to understand how work trips are combined into trip chains and to relate trip chaining with...
This paper discusses the development of an afternoon peak period trip generation model for both work and non-work trips. Three data sources are used in model development, a Household Travel Survey, a...
A graphic analysis of the wage rates of farm laborers (1943)
Thesis (M.A.)--Syracuse University, 1943
Ramp Metering and the Capacity of Active Freeway Bottlenecks.
The objective of this study is to determine whether ramp meters increase the capacity of active freeway bottlenecks, and if they do, how. The traffic flow characteristics at twenty-seven active...
Models of Transportation and Land Use Change: A Guide to the Territory
Michael Iacono, David Levinson, Ahmed El-Geneidy
Modern urban regions are highly complex entities. Despite the difficulty of modeling every relevant aspect of an urban region, researchers have produced a rich variety models dealing with...
Waiting Tolerance: Ramp Delay vs. Freeway Congestion
David Levinson, Kathleen Harder, John Bloomfield, Kathy Carlson
Waiting tolerance at ramp meters and travel time on the freewaywere measured using a computer administered stated preference (CASP) survey and a virtual experience stated preference (VESP)...
Mapping Accessibility Over Time
Ahmed El-Geneidy, David Levinson
The concept of "accessibility" has been coin in the transportation planning field for more than 40 years. Improving accessibility is a common element in the goals section in almost all transportation...
The Weakest Link: A Model of the Decline of Surface Transportation Networks
This study explores the economic mechanisms behind the decline of a surface transportation network, based on the assumption that the decline phase is a spontaneous process driven by decentralized...
Measuring the Structure of Road Networks
Spatial networks display both topologic and geometric variations in their structure. This study investigates the measurement of road network structure. Existing measures of heterogeneity,...
Area Based Models of New Highway Route Growth
Empirical data and statistical models are used to answer the question of where new highway routes are most likely to be located. High-quality land-use, population distribution and highway network GIS...
Nebiyou Tilahun, Kevin Krizek, David Levinson
This study evaluates individual preferences for five different cycling environments by trading off a higher travel time as a cost incurred when choosing a better facility while letting the user have...
Network Expansion Decision-making in the Twin Cities
This paper presents a qualitative analysis of the decision-rules used by jurisdictions in Minnesota's Twin Cities metropolitan area. Interviews were conducted with staff at the city, county,...
Modeling Pipeline Driving Behaviors: A Hidden Markov Model Approach
Driving behaviors at intersection are complex because drivers have to perceive more traffic events than normal road driving and thus are exposed to more errors with safety consequences. Drivers make...
Economic Effects of Lifting the Spring Load Restriction Policy in Minnesota
Brian Smalkoski, Ning Li, David Levinson
Spring load restrictions (SLR) regulate the weight per axle carried by heavy trucks during the spring thaw period. This policy aims to reduce pavement damage caused by heavy vehicles and extend the...
A Multi-Agent Congestion and Pricing Model
A multi-agent model of travelers competing to utilize a roadway in time and space is presented in this paper to illustrate the effect of congestion and pricing on traveler behaviors and network...
Ramp Meters on Trial: Evidence from the Twin Cities Metering Holiday
Ramp meters in the Twin Cities have been the subject of a recent test of their effectiveness, involving turning them off for 8 weeks. This paper analyzes the resultswith and without ramp metering for...
Effectiveness of Learning Transportation Network Growth Through Simulation
Computer simulation plays an increasingly important role in engineering education as a tool for enhancing classroom learning. This research investigates the efficacy of using simulation in teaching...
Balancing Efficiency and Equity of Ramp Meters
A new freeway ramp control objective - minimizing total weighted travel time is presented in this study. This new objective function is capable of balancing efficiency and equity of ramp meters,...
The Emergence of Hierarchy in Transportation Networks
A transportation network is a complex system that exhibits the properties of self-organization and emergence. Previous research in dynamics related to transportation networks focuses on traffic...
Road Pricing with Autonomous Links
This research examines road pricing on a network of autonomous highway links. By autonomous it is meant that the links are competitive and independent, with the objective of maximizing their own...
Paying for the Fixed Costs of Roads
This paper explores alternative financing mechanisms to pay for the fixed costs of roads, particularly in cases without rising marginal costs. Mechanisms considered include tolls, gas taxes, and...
Micro-foundations of Congestion and Pricing: A Game Theory Perspective
This paper develops congestion theory and congestion pricing theory from its microfoundations, the interaction of two or more vehicles. Using game theory, with a two-player game it is shown that the...
The Rational Locator Reexamined
The Rational Locator Hypothesis posits that individuals can, if they choose, maintain approximately steady journey-to-work travel times by adjusting their home and workplace. This hypothesis was...
Teaching Integrated Land Use-Transportation Planning: Topics, Readings, and Strategies
Planning pedagogy is increasingly focused on ways to teach interdisciplinary topics in an integrated and synergistic manner. The intersection of land use and transportation represent two topics that,...
Value of Time for Commercial Vehicle Operators
Brian Smalkoski, David Levinson
The spring load restriction policy of Minnesota has been in effect for over 50 years with little consideration given to the cost that it imposes on the freight industry. A cost-benefit study was...
Delayer Pays Principle: Examining Congestion Pricing with Compensation
David Levinson, Peter Rafferty
Despite its virtues, congestion pricing has yet to be widely adopted. This paper explores the issues of equity and use of toll revenue and several possible alternatives. The equity and efficiency...
A Framework for Analyzing the Effects of Spring Load Restriction
David Levinson, Ning Li, Brian Smalkoski, Xi Zou, Maryam Hashami
Spring Load Restrictions (SLR) impose load restrictions on heavy trucks during the spring thaw period. Although the policies have been implemented for many years, we are still unsure of their...
An Agent-Based Approach to Travel Demand Modeling: An Exploratory Analysis
The paper develops an agent-based travel demand model. In this model, travel demands emerge from the interactions of three types of agents in the transportation system: node, arc and traveler. Simple...
Optimal Freeway Ramp Control without Origin-Destination Information
This paper develops an analytical framework for ramp metering, under which various ramp control strategies can be viewed as ramifications of the same most-efficient control logic with different...
Some Properties of Flows at Freeway Bottlenecks
Capacity of a freeway segment should only be measured when it is an active bottleneck. The properties of flows at active freeway bottlenecks bear on both the definition of capacity and the procedure...
A Queuing and Statistical Analysis of Freeway Bottleneck Formation
A modified approach to treat traffic flow parameters (flow, density and speed) has been introduced in this paper. A queuing analysis has been conducted on traffic flow data on Interstate 94 in the...
A Schematic for Focusing on Youth in Investigations of Community Design and Physical Activity
Kevin Krizek, Amanda Birnbaum, David Levinson
This paper provides a first step to address special considerations for youth in a relatively new area of physical activity research. After reviewing the urgent need for novel approaches to increasing...
A Model for Optimizing Electronic Toll Collection Systems
This paper examines the deployment of electronic toll collection (ETC) and develops a model to maximize social welfare associated with a toll plaza. A payment choice model estimates the share of...
Predicting the Construction of New Highway Links
David Levinson, Ramachandra Karamalaputi
This paper examines new highway construction based on the status of the network, traffic demand, project costs, and budget constraints. The data span two decades and consist of descriptions of...
Induced Supply: A Model of Highway Network Expansion at the Microscopic Level
David Levinson, Ramachandra Karamalaputi
This paper examines the growth of a network based on the present conditions of the network, traffic demand, other demographic characteristics, project costs, and a budget constraint. The effects of...
Perspectives on Efficiency in Transportation
This paper considers the engineer's, economist's, manager's, and planner's perspectives on effectiveness for transportation respectively. This paper examines both the measures used in each...
Buying into the Bypass: Allowing Trucks to pay to use the Ramp Meter Bypasses
Satya Muthuswamy, David Levinson
People make their route choices based on the delays they experience but not on the delays they impose on others. Moreover different travelers have different values of time. Road Pricing can be seen...
Induced Demand: A Microscopic Perspective
Pavithra Parthasarathi, David Levinson, Ramachandra Karamalaputi
This paper analyzes the induced demand hypothesis using a disaggregate approach at the link level. A panel data set of Minneapolis/Saint Paul highway network for the years 1980-1998 is constructed. A...
Highway Costs and the Efficient Mix of State and Local Funds
Transportation networks and governments are both hierarchically organized. In some states most highways are financed by state governments, while in other states similar roads are financed locally....
Identifying Winners and Losers in Transportation
This paper explores the issues surrounding transportation equity for effects both external and internal to transportation. Several examples of transportation "improvements" imposing transportation...
Road Capacity and the Allocation of Time
David Levinson, Seshasai Kanchi
Additional highway capacity, by increasing travel speed, affects the individual share of time within a 24-hour budget allocated to various activities (time spent at and traveling to home, shop, work...
The Economics of Traveler Information from Probes
This paper examines the economics of traveler information from probe vehicles to understand how many probes are needed to provide useful information, and how that probe information might be supplied...
Why States Toll: An Empirical Model of Finance Choice
This paper examines the question of why some states impose tolls while others rely more heavily on gas and other taxes. A model to predict the share of street and highway revenue from tolls is...
Financing Infrastructure Over Time
A model to examine the choice by jurisdiction whether to finance roads with taxes or tolls is developed. The idea of decentralized, local control and multiple jurisdictions distinguishes this...
Revenue Choice on a Serial Network
A model to examine the choice by jurisdiction whether to finance roads with taxes or tolls is developed. The idea of decentralized, local control and multiple jurisdictions distinguishes this...
A Framework for Assessing Public Private Partnerships
David Levinson, Reinaldo Garcia, Kathy Carlson
This paper examines in detail Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), discussing their main objectives, implementations and challenges. The possible joint venture between the government and private...
Inter-technology Effects in Intelligent Transportation Systems
David Levinson, Seshasai Kanchi, David Gillen
This project examines the expected benefits of varying combinations of ITS applications: Freeway Service Patrol, Changeable Message Signs, and Ramp Metering. The research analyzes the simulated...
A Moment of Time: Reliability in Route Choice using Stated Preference
Nebiyou Tilahun, David Levinson
Understanding how reliability is valued is important because it provides insight to how aims of policies that aspire to provide better transport options can be more fully integrated with user...
This paper examines Columbia, Maryland, called "The Next America" by its founders in 1967. It compares the planning goals and actual achievements over the third of a century that the city has...
Self Organization of Surface Transportation Networks
This research investigates the self-organization of surface transportation networks. Using a travel demand model coupled with revenue, cost, and investment models, experiments are run under a variety...
Speed and Delay on Signalized Arterials
This research presents a model to predict the influence of demand and capacity on the running speed of signalized arterials in Montgomery County, Maryland. The model separates the changes to link...
How Land Use Shapes the Evolution of Road Networks
The present research develops an agent-based model to treat the organization, growth, and contraction of network elements. The components model travel demand, revenue, cost, and investment. Revenue...
Freeway Origin Destination Matrices: Not as Simple as They Seem
Satya Muthuswamy, Gary Davis, David Levinson, Panos Michalopoulos
Travel demand can be elegantly represented using an Origin-Destination (OD) matrix. The link counts observed on the network are produced by the underlying travel demand. One could use these counts to...
Relationships between ramp metering and sprawl
This paper explores impacts of ramp metering on urban land use. A regression-based transportation model is developed to capture changes in accessibility caused by ramp metering on a highway network....
Selfishness and Altruism in the Distribution of Travel Time and Income
Nebiyou Tilahun, David Levinson
Most economic models assume that individuals act out their preferences based on their own self interest. However there have also been other paradigms in the economics literature that have tried to...
Value of Information for Transit Riders
Transit information systems are crucial for informing riders of their location, destination, and arrival time. After reviewing and classifying the various types of transit information systems, an...
Effectiveness of Variable Message Signs Using Empirical Loop Detector Data
The effectiveness of Variable Messages Signs (VMS) on route guidance is assessed by a discrete probit choice model that estimates the proportion of vehicles that diverts to an alternative routes...
Value of Time Comparisons in the Presence of Unexpected Delay.
Nebiyou Tilahun, David Levinson
This study estimates Value of Time differences between people who arrived at their destination as planned and those that were delayed. The analysis is based on the I-394 MnPASS High Occupancy/Toll...
The Topological Evolution of Surface Transportation Networks
This study explores the topological evolution of surface transportation networks, using empirical evidence and a simulation model validated on that data. Evolution is an iterative process of...
Network growth is a complex phenomenon; some researchers have suggested that it occurs in an orderly or rational way, based on the size of places that are connected. This paper examines the order in...
Density and Dispersion: The Co-Development of Land use and Rail in London
This paper examines the changes that occurred in the rail network and density of population in London during the nineteenth and twenti- eth centuries. It aims to disentangle the 'chicken and egg'...
Too Expensive to Meter: The influence of transaction costs in transportation and communication
David Levinson, Andrew Odlyzko
Technology appears to be making fine-scale charging (as in tolls on roads that depend on time of day or even on current and anticipated levels of congestion) increasingly feasible. And such charging...
David Levinson, Kathleen Harder, John Bloomfield, Kasia Winiarczyk
This paper describes experiments comparing traditional computer administered stated preference with virtual experience stated preference to ascertain how people value stopped delay compared with...
The Value of Advanced Traveler Information Systems for Route Choice
Over the next few years, driver behavior should become more informed with the advent and deployment of in-vehicle navigation systems. This paper analyzes systems that provide the driver the fastest...
Space, Money, Life-cycle, and the Allocation of Time
Allocation of time to various activities is known to be a function of various demographic, socio-economic, seasonal, and scheduling factors. This paper examines those variables through exploration of...
In this paper we review the theoretical and empirical literature on the cost structure of the provision of air transportation and specify and estimate our own cost functions. We develop a full cost...
Accessibility and the Journey to Work
This study analyzes the effect of accessibility to jobs and houses at both the home and work ends of trips on commuting duration for respondents to a household travel survey in metropolitan...
A Comparison of the Social Costs of Air and Highway
David Levinson, David Gillen, Adib Kanafani
This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the literature on the measures of social costs, providing an indication of the state of engineering and economic literature. We operationalize the new...
The Limits to Growth Management
This paper reviews and critiques the growth management system in Montgomery County, Maryland with the intent of finding generalizable lessons. An overview of the twenty year old system is followed by...
The Full Cost of High-Speed Rail: An Engineering Approach
David Levinson, Jean-Michel Mathieu, Adib Kanafani, David Gillen
This paper examines the full costs, defined as the sum of private and social costs, of a high speed rail system proposed for a corridor connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco in California. The...
The Full Cost of Intercity Highway Transportation
In this paper we review the theoretical and empirical literature on the cost structure of the provision of intercity highway transportation and specify and estimate our own cost functions . We...
A Windowed Transportation Planning Model
This research develops and applies a transportation planning model that integrates regional and local area forecasting approaches. While regional models have the scope to model the interaction of...
Job and Housing Tenure and the Journey to Work
Tenure at jobs and houses, along with commuting patterns between home and work were studied for residents of metropolitan Washington. Two alternative potential outcomes were considered: (1) Because...
Density and the Journey to Work
This paper evaluates the influence of residential density on commuting behavior across U.S. cities while controlling for available opportunities, the technology of transportation infrastructure, and...
Activity, Travel, and the Allocation of Time
This paper analyzes 1968 and 1987-88 metropolitan Washington, DC household travel surveys to understand the daily allocation of time among different activities of individuals classified by work...
Chained Trips in Montgomery County, Maryland
This paper analyzes the 1987-88 Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments home interview survey to understand how work trips are combined into trip chains and to relate trip chaining with...
A Multi-modal Trip Distribution Model
This paper presents a multimodal trip distribution function estimated and validated for the metropolitan Washington region. In addition, a methodology for measuring accessibility, which is used as a...
An Evolutionary Transportation Planning Model: Structure and Application
This paper describes an evolutionary transportation planning model wherein the demand in a given year depends on the demand of the previous year. The model redistributes a fraction of the work trips...
Temporal Variations on Allocation of Time
This study investigates the allocation of time and trip-making across time-of-day, day-of-week, and month-of-year, as well as over the past forty years. Some interesting findings result. People are...
Integrating Feedback into the Transportation Planning Mode
This research develops and applies a new structure for the transportation planning model that includes feedback between demand, assignment, and traffic control. New methods, combined with a renewed...
Operational Evidence of Changing Travel Patterns
This paper utilizes a traffic counts database covering a ten year period (1976-1985) to identify travel trends for Montgomery County, a suburb of Washington D.C. Generally, travel behavior is...
The Rational Locator: Why Travel Times Have Remained Stable
This paper evaluates household travel surveys for the Washington metropolitan region conducted in 1968 and 1988, and shows that commuting times remain stable or decline over the twenty year period...
This paper discusses the development of an afternoon peak period trip generation model for both work and non-work trips. Three data sources are used in model development, a Household Travel Survey, a...
Evaluation of Impacts of Adaptive Cruise Control on Mixed Traffic Flow
This paper addresses the impacts of Adaptive (Intelligent) Cruise Control (ACC) laws on traffic flow. Semi-automated vehicles, such as ACC Vehicles, with the capability to automatically follow each...
Agent-Based Model of Price Competition and Product Differentiation on Congested Networks
Lei Zhang, David Levinson, Shanjiang Zhu
Using consistent agent-based techniques, this research models the decision-making processes of users and infrastructure owner/operators to explore the welfare consequence of price competition,...
Shanjiang Zhu, Feng Xie, David Levinson
This research explores the effectiveness of using simulation as a tool for enhancing classroom learning in the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities. The authors...
Financing and Deploying Automated Freight Systems
New technologies are bringing Automated Freight Systems (AFS), which aim to reduce congestion, mitigate environmental impacts and enhance public safety, to fruition. The financing and deployment...
Air Rights: a teaching laboratory for an integrated land use and transportation planning course
David King, Kevin Krizek, David Levinson
The intersection of land use and transportation policy is becoming an increasingly important focus for all urban planners. This focus, however, challenges the academic community to design effective...
Traffic Equilibration: The Case of the Twin Cities Ramp Meter Shut Off
In Fall 2000, more than 430 ramp meters in the Twin Cities metropolitan area were shut down in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the metering system. This shutdown disturbed normal traffic...
Detecting the Breakdown of Traffic
Timely traffic prediction is important in advanced traffic management systems to make possible rapid and effective response by traffic control facilities. From the observations of traffic flow, the...
Network Circuity and the Location of Home and Work
Ahmed El-Geneidy, David Levinson
In an urban context people travel between places of residence and work destinations via transportation networks. Transportation studies that involve measurements of distances between residence and...
Measuring the transportation needs of people with developmental disability
Rania Wasfi, Ahmed El-Geneidy, David Levinson
The US Department of Health and Human Services Administration on Development Disabilities estimates the number of people diagnosed with a developmental disability in the United States as 4.5 million...
Economics of Road Network Ownership
This paper seeks to understand the economic impact of centralized and decentralized ownership structures and their corresponding pricing and investment strategies on transportation network...
Determinants of Route Choice and the Value of Traveler Information
A major strategy of federal ITS initiatives and state departments of transportation is to provide traveler information to motorists through various means, including variable message signs, the...
Tolling at a Frontier: A Game Theoretic Analysis
Frontiers provide an opportunity for one jurisdiction to remedy inequities (and even exploit them) in highway finance by employing toll-booths, and thereby ensuring the highest possible share of...
Forecasting and Evaluating Network Growth
This research assesses the implications of existing trends on future network investment, comparing alternative scenarios concerning budgets and investment rules across a variety of performance...
The Economics of Transportation Network Growth
A number of factors influence the efficiency, productivity, and welfare of a transportation network. Travel demand, user costs, and facility supply costs equilibrate on various time scales under a...
Freeway Service Patrols: A Stated Preference Analysis of Insurance Values
Pavithra Parthasarathi, David Levinson
Highway assistance services, also called the freeway service patrols (FSPs), are one of the main approaches used by incident management programs. The objective of this study was to investigate the...
Home or Office:Technology, Attitude, and At-Home Work
This paper examines the influence of technology and employer attitude on the decision to work at home. Using data from a suburban Washington household travel survey, it is found that both technology...
Value of Trail Access on Home Purchases
Paul Mogush, Kevin Krizek, David Levinson
We use hedonic analysis of home sales data from the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area to estimate the effects of access of different types of trails on home value. Our model includes proximity to three...
The Evolution of Transport Networks
Between 1900 and 2000, the length of paved roads in the United States increased from 240 km to 6,400,000 km (Peat 2002, BTS 2002) with virtually 100% of the U.S. population having almost immediate...
Monitoring Infrastructure Capacity
This paper examines the issues around monitoring of the capacity of public sector infrastructure to absorb land development.This paper first introduces Montgomery County©ös growth management...
This paper explores the inter-connectedness and co-evolution of transportation networks and land use through the application of a Markov Chain model to the Twin Cities from 1958 through 1990. This...
Network Neutrality: Lessons from Transportation
The politically-charged notion of network neutrality came to the fore in 2005 and 2006, using analogy from transportation as one of the key tools in motivating arguments. This paper examines how the...
Pricing, Investment, and Network Equilibrium
Despite rapidly emerging innovative road pricing and investment principles, the development of a long run network dynamics model for necessary policy evaluation is still lagging. This research...
Estimation of Demand Response to Ramp Metering
Ramp meters in the Twin Cities were turned off for 8 weeks in the Fall of 2000. Previous research has assumed demand to be fixed when analyzing ITS technologies, however analysis of this ramp...
Place Rank: A New Accessibility Measure
Ahmed El-Geneidy, David Levinson
Accessibility is the potential of opportunities for interaction in an urban context. The widely used accessibility measure consists of the number of opportunities that can be reached within a region...
Web-Based Roadway Geometry Design Software for Transportation Education
Traditionally, students use pencil and ruler to lay out lines and curves over contour maps for roadway geometry design. Numerous calculations of stopping sight distance, minimum turning radius, and...
The history of turnpikes from their first deployment in the 17th century through their decline in the 19th century, and some restoration in the 20th century is analyzed with a view to understanding...
Variation of Subjective Value of Travel Time on Freeways and Ramp Meters
Lei Zhang, Feng Xie, David Levinson
This paper explores drivers' subjective value of time under moving and stopped freeway travel conditions using a stated preference survey. Unlike previous studies that assume a constant value of...
The Political Economy of Private Roads
This paper first briefly reviews the history of private roads. Then the functional and economic classification of roadways is presented. Three different classes of roads (local, linking, and limited...
The Use of Road Infrastructure Data for Urban Transportation Planning: Issues and Opportunities
In order to maintain and improve road infrastructure in their respective jurisdictions, the state (the Minnesota DOT), region (the Metropolitan Council), and seven counties in the Twin Cities...
Evaluating Effectiveness of Ramp Meters: Evidence for the Twin Cities Ramp Meter Shut-off
Ramp meters in the Twin Cities have been the subject of a recent test of their effectiveness, involving turning them off for 8 weeks. This paper analyzes the results with and without ramp metering...
Jurisdictional Control and Network Growth
Transport infrastructure evolves over time in a complex process as part of a dynamic and open system including travel demand, land use, as well as economic and political initiatives. As transport...
The Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive: A Case Study in Archiving
This paper summarizes research on standards for archiving travel survey data. It then describes some of the efforts at organizing data and developing metadata. The development of metadata standards...
The Transportation Needs of Seniors
Rania Wasfi, Ahmed El-Geneidy, David Levinson
Over 208,000 residents of Hennepin County, Minnesota are over the age of 55, a number that is sure to rise. This paper examines the transportation needs of the elderly in Hennepin County through a...
Evolution of the Second-Story City: The Minneapolis Skyway System
Michael Corbett, Feng Xie, David Levinson
This paper describes and explains the growth of the Minneapolis Skyway network. Accessibility is used as a major factor in understanding that growth (i.e. does the network connect to the location(s)...
This study uses regression analysis to evaluate long-run traffic management system performance. Three important traffic management systems in the Twin Cities metro area - Ramp Metering, Variable...
This paper proposes a stochastic congestion and pricing model that combines a bottleneck model with stochastic queuing to study roadway congestion and pricing. Employing this model, two pricing...
David Levinson, Michael Corbett, Maryam Hashami
This study estimates the operating costs for commercial vehicle operators in Minnesota. A survey of firms that undertake commercial truck road movements was performed. The average operating cost per...
Vehicle Based Intersection Management with Intelligent Agents
Signal-based intersection management will change when vehicles with intelligent capability are available in the future. Intelligent agents embedded in vehicle software will be responsible for vehicle...
Travel Time Variability After A Shock: The Case Of The Twin Cities Ramp Meter Shut Off
Ramp meters in the Twin Cities were turned off for 8 weeks in the Fall of 2000. This paper analyzes travel time variability with and without ramp metering for several representative freeways during...
Modeling the Growth of Transportation Networks: A comprehensive review
This paper reviews the progress that has been made over the last
Work and Home Location: Possible Role of Social Networks
Nebiyou Tilahun, David Levinson
This research explores to what extent people's work locations are similar to that of those who live around them. Using the Longitudinal Economic and Household Dynamics data set and the US census for...
Lexus Lanes or Corolla Lanes? Spatial Use and Equity Patterns on the I-394 MnPASS Lanes
Tyler Patterson, David Levinson
A 2004-2006 longitudinal panel survey of I-394 residents found support levels at over 60 percent for the congestion priced High Occupancy Toll (HOT) lane, known to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and...
Comments on an article which examined the response of organized labor to the enactment of labor and compulsory arbitration law to resolve labor disputes in the United States. Conclusions of the...
Discusses the theory of labor movement as an article of faith. Concept of the marginal theory of value; Significance of marginal utility valuation; Emphasis on group valuation. (Abstract copyright...
Comments on an article which examined the response of organized labor to the enactment of labor and compulsory arbitration law to resolve labor disputes in the United States. Conclusions of the...
Discusses the theory of labor movement as an article of faith. Concept of the marginal theory of value; Significance of marginal utility valuation; Emphasis on group valuation. (Abstract copyright...
Does First Last: The Existence and Extent of First Mover Advantages on Spatial Networks
This paper examines the nature of first mover advantages on spatially-differentiated surface transportation networks. The literature on first mover advantages identifies a number of sources that...
The Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Vehicle Crashes in Minnesota
Daylight saving time (DST), implemented as an energy saving policy, impacts many other aspects of life; one is road safety. Based on ten-year vehicle crash data in Minnesota, this paper evaluates...
The traffic and behavioral effects of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse
Shanjiang Zhu, David Levinson, Henry Liu, Kathleen Harder
The collapse, on August 1, 2007, of the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, abruptly interrupted the usual route of about 140,000 daily vehicle trips and substantially disturbed...
A Review of Research on Planned and Unplanned Disruptions to Transportation Networks
Travel decisions may be very stable in an environment with which they are familiar. Major network disruptions such as the I-35W bridge collapse disrupt habitual behavior. Such "natural" experiments...
An agent-based retail location model on a supply chain network
Clusters of business locations, which considerably impact daily activities, have been prominent phenomena. Yet the question of how and why Þrms cluster in certain areas has not been sufficiently...
This paper presents a causality analysis of the coupled development of population and streetcars in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Historic residence and network data were assembled for...
The practice of transportation engineering and planning has evolved substantially over the past several decades. A new paradigm for transportation engineering education is required to better engage...
Cordon pricing consistent with the physics of overcrowding
Nikolas Geroliminis, David Levinson
This paper describes the modeling of recurring congestion in a network. It is shown that the standard economic models of marginal cost cannot describe precisely traffic congestion in networks during...
Review of Methods for Estimating the Economic Impact of Transportation Improvements
Michael Iacono, David Levinson
Transportation analysts and the public decision-makers they support are confronted with a broad range of analytical tools for estimating the economic impacts of improvements to trans- portation...
Post-Construction Evaluation of Traffic Forecast Accuracy
Pavithra Parthasarathi, David Levinson
This research evaluates the accuracy of demand forecasts using a sample of recently-completed projects in Minnesota and identiÞes the factors inßuencing the inaccuracy in forecasts. The forecast...
Evaluating the Effects of I-35W Bridge Collapse on Road-Users in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Region
This study evaluates the e?ects of I-35W bridge collapse on road-users in the Twin- Cities metropolitan area. We adopted the Twin-Cities (Metropolitan Minneapolis and St. Paul) Seven-County travel...
Perception of Waiting Time at Signalized Intersections
Xinkai Wu, David Levinson, Henry Liu
Perceived waiting time at signalized intersections differs from the real value, and varies with signal design. The onerousness of delay depends on the conditions under which it is experienced. Using...
Predicting Land Use Change: How Much Does Transportation Matter?
Michael Iacono, David Levinson
In this paper, we propose to measure the extent of the inßuence of transportation systems on land use change. Using a set of high-resolution land use data for the Twin Cities metropolitan region, we...
Home Relocation and the Journey to Work
Nebiyou Tilahun, David Levinson
Relocation decisions are complex. Each household has a bundle of attributes that make a location attractive to it, including the ability to access different activity locations easily, neighborhood...
I-35W Bridge Collapse: Travel Impacts and Adjustment Strategies
Nebiyou Tilahun, David Levinson
On August 1st, 2007, the I-35W bridge crossing the Mississippi river fell into the Mississippi river. In addition to the human tragedy that it caused, the bridge failure also impacted how people...
The full cost of high-speed rail: an engineering approach
David Gillen, David Levinson, Jean Michel Mathieu, Adib Kanafani
This paper examines the full costs, defined as the sum of private and social costs, of a high-speed rail system proposed for a corridor connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco in California. The...
An Agent-based Model of Retail Location with Complementary Goods
This paper examines the emergence of retail clusters on a supply chain network comprised of suppliers, retailers, and consumers. An agent-based model is proposed to investigate retail location...
Optimal freeway ramp control without origin-destination information
This paper develops an analytical framework for ramp metering, under which various ramp control strategies can be viewed as ramifications of the same most-efficient control logic with different...
Ramp meters on trial: Evidence from the Twin Cities metering holiday
Ramp meters in the Twin Cities have been the subject of a recent test of their effectiveness, involving turning them off for eight weeks. This paper analyzes the results with and without ramp...
Micro-foundations of congestion and pricing: A game theory perspective
This paper develops congestion theory and congestion pricing theory from its micro-foundations, the interaction of two or more vehicles. Using game theory, with a two-player game it is shown that the...
A Model of the Rise and Fall of Roads
Transportation network planning decisions made at one point of time can have profound impacts in the future. However, transportation networks are usually assumed tobe static in models of land use. A...
Network Neutrality: Lessons from Transportation
The politically-charged notion of network neutrality came to the fore in the first decade of the 21st century, using analogy from transportation as one of the key tools in motivating arguments. This...
Governance Choice on a Serial Network
This paper analyzes governance choice in a two-level federation in the provision of road infrastructure across jurisdictions. It is demonstrated, on a serial road network shared by two districts,...
Equity Effects of Road Pricing, A Review
Are road pricing strategies regressive or progressive? This is a question that has been confronting researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers who seek to implement new mechanisms to raise funds...
Evolution of the second-story city: the Minneapolis Skyway System
Michael J Corbett, Feng Xie, David Levinson
This research describes the growth of the Minneapolis Skyway network and aims to determine if the growth of the system has followed a predictable path. We hypothesize that the system expanded to the...
Paying for the Fixed Costs of Roads
This paper explores alternative financing mechanisms to pay for the fixed costs of roads, particularly in cases without rising marginal costs. Mechanisms considered include tolls, gasoline taxes, and...
Induced Supply: A Model of Highway Network Expansion at the Microscopic Level
David Levinson, Ramachandra Karamalaputi
This paper examines the growth of a highway network based on the present and historical conditions of the network, traffic demand, demographic characteristics, project costs, and budget. The effects...
Why States Toll: An Empirical Model of Finance Choice
This paper examines the question of why some states impose tolls while others rely more heavily on fuel and other taxes. A model to predict the share of street and highway revenue from tolls is...
Jurisdictional Control and Network Growth
Network growth, Transport economics, Incremental connection, Jurisdictional control,
Modeling the Growth of Transportation Networks: A Comprehensive Review
Transportation, Network growth, Modeling,
Why retailers cluster: An agent model of location choice on supply chains
This paper investigates the emergence of retail clusters on supply chains comprised of suppliers, retailers, and consumers. Agent-based models are employed to study retail location choice in a market...
Governance choice on a serial network
Governance choice, Transportation, Infrastructure, Fiscal federalism,
Modeling phase changes of road networks
Adopting an agent-based approach, this paper explores the topological evolution of road networks from a microscopic perspective. We assume a decentralized decision-making mechanism where roads are...
The Influence of Network Structure on Travel Distance
Pavithra Parthasarathi, Hartwig Hochmair, David Levinson
The objective of this research is to identify the role of network architecture in influencing individual travel behavior using travel survey data from two urban areas in Florida: Fort Lauderdale and...
Michael Scharenbroich, Michael Iacono, David Levinson
This paper analyzes the distribution of travel time across different classes of roads for 47 subjects in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. We use global positioning system (GPS) and...
Gasoline Prices and Traffic Safety: Age and Gender Variations
Guangqing Chi, Arthur Cosby, Paul Gilbert, David Levinson
Gasoline prices have significant effects on traffic safety. However, existing literature has failed to adequately investigate the effects: the literature has examined only fatal incidents rather than...
Shanjiang Zhu, Nebiyou Tilahun, David Levinson, Xiaozheng He
Major network disruptions have significant impacts on local travelers. A good understanding of behavioral reactions to such incidents is crucial for traffic management and planning. Existing research...
Pavithra Parthasarathi, Anupam Srivastava, Nikolas Geroliminis, David Levinson
The assumption that the penalty for being early is less than that for being late was put forward by Vickrey (1963) who analyzed how commuters compare penalties in the form of schedule delay (due to...
Activity, Travel, and the Allocation of Time
This paper analyzes 1968 and 1987-88 metropolitan Washington, DC household travel surveys to understand the daily allocation of time among different activities of individuals classified by work...
People don't use the shortest path
Most recent route choice models, following either Random Utility Maximization or rule-based paradigm, require explicit enumeration of feasible routes. The quality of model estimation and prediction...
Economic and equity effects of transportation utility fees
Transportation utility fees are a financing mechanism for transportation that treats the network as a utility and bills properties in proportion to their use, rather than their value as with the...
Financing transportation with land value taxes: Effects on development intensity
A significant portion of local transportation funding comes from the property tax. The tax is conventionally assessed on both land and buildings, but transportation increases only the value of the...
The Role of Job Search Methods and Contacts on Commuting and Relocation Decisions
Nebiyou Tilahun, David Levinson
This paper empirically explores the relationship between (i) job finding and commuting outcomes and (ii) the relationship between job search and the commute and location outcomes of relocation...
Contacts and Meetings: Location, Duration and Distance Traveled
Nebiyou Tilahun, David Levinson
The role of contacts on travel behavior has been getting increasing attention. This paper reports on data collected on individualÕs social meetings and the choice of in-home/out-of-home meeting...
Value Capture for Transportation Finance
Michael Iacono, David Levinson, Zhirong (Jerry) Zhao
As vehicles become more fuel-efficient and overall levels of travel stagnate in response to increases in fuel prices, conventional sources of revenue for transportation finance such as taxes on motor...
Investing for Reliability and Security in Transportation Networks
Alternative transportation investment policies can lead to very different network forms in the future. The desirability of a transportation network should be assessed not only by its economic...
Measuring Winners and Losers from the new I-35W Mississippi River Bridge
Shanjiang Zhu, David Levinson, Henry Liu
The opening of the replacement for the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge bridge on September 18th, 2008 provides a unique opportunity to evaluate the impacts generated by this additional link on network...
Roads cover a signiÞcant fraction of the land area in many municipalities. The public provision of roads means this land is exempt from the local property tax. Transferring roads from public to...
This paper urges that policy decisions be based on important and reliable performance measures. Robust measures that assess the performance of the transportation and land use dimensions of cities,...