2024 Volume 80 Issue 20 Article ID: 24-20056
This study extends the framework of behavioral models that describe situations in which decision-makers become rationally inattentive, and develops a nested Logit-type travel behavior model and a traffic equilibrium allocation model that describe (1) situations in which tourist drivers misperceive traffic conditions, (2) situations in which drivers simultaneously acquire traffic information and select routes, and (3) situations in which traffic conditions change due to fluctuations in OD demand. Numerical analysis of the effects of reducing the difficulty of obtaining information and providing stopover coupons on route selection behavior using a simple network simulating a return trip from a sightseeing spot suggests that coupon provision alone may not be effective in improving congestions, and that simultaneously reducing information difficulty and increasing coupons may have the opposite effect.
