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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...