MODELING TOTAL RESTING TIME OF INTER-URBAN EXPRESSWAY USERS BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF ETC TRIP DATA

Abstract

This paper describes the preliminary analysis on the resting behavior of expressway users by using electric toll collection (ETC) data. For the sake of the impact assessment of various traffic management schemes, we have been developing a mesoscopic traffic simulator which covers whole inter- urban expressway network in Japan. The simulator takes account of the dynamic route choice behavior of drivers and, for the further step, is expected to model the resting behavior during their trips. In this paper, we first analyze driver's total resting time during their trips utilizing ETC trip data and vehicular detector data, and then propose a macroscopic model framework of the total resting time based on the analysis results. Finally future subjects on the application of the proposed model are discussed.