Travel time

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Travel time in hours from Turin to other European cities

The travel time in the narrower (and actual) sense in traffic planning is the time required to record the complete change of location from a point A to a point B, with A and B only being public transport stops in exceptional cases. Compared to the travel time, the stop times (for changing passengers and handling) are also included in the travel time as additional variables; it is therefore sometimes more aptly referred to as “delivery time”.

In contrast, the "complex travel time" should cover an entire route chain with all its components: The time required from the start at point A (e.g. apartment or house door) to the destination of a route (e.g. entrance to the destination building) is calculated or . detected. The complex travel time differs significantly from the travel time, which is only related to the respective means of transport, as well as the travel time, because it is due to the additional addition of factors outside of the travel and travel time, such as transfer times, waiting times, walking times or others Travel options such as park and ride , bike and ride , bus shuttle is determined.

The "complex travel time" also depends on the following factors:

  • Travel time of the individual means of transport, if there is a choice, and the comparison with the alternatives (walking, cycling),
  • Access routes and the achievable speed for the respective means of transport (arrival and departure times),
  • different transfer time requirements in nodes, but also
  • the physical constitution of the road user (and, if applicable, the accessibility of transfer points in the case of disabled people ).

With the help of traffic telematics instruments , such as B. traffic flow analyzes, attempts are made to forecast the travel time elements that lie outside the calculable travel time and thus provide both live data for traffic management and to achieve long-term changes in the behavior of road users. In practice, complex travel times have seldom been recorded systematically; in traffic planning, they are usually calculated using assumptions or simulations.

example

The following example illustrates the differences between travel time, travel time and complex travel time:

After school at 5 p.m., a student wants to watch a movie that starts at 6:30 p.m. To do this, he drives from school at 5:15 p.m. to A-Stadt station, where he arrives at 5:30 p.m. The train leaves at 17:45 from station A-Stadt to arrive in B-Dorf at 18:00. From there the student walks 5 minutes to the cinema.

Travel time for this route is 30 minutes (15 minutes by bus, 15 minutes by train)

The travel time is 50 minutes (30 minutes travel time + 15 minutes transfer time + 5 minutes walking time)

The complex travel time is 90 minutes (50 minutes travel time + 15 minutes waiting time for the bus + 25 minutes waiting time from arrival at the cinema to the start of the film)

literature

Web links

Wikiquote: Travel Time  - Quotes
Commons : Travel  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: travel time  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Technical University of Dresden, professorship for rail transport, public urban and regional transport: Introduction to the lecture complex travel time , Dresden ( Memento from December 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 243 kB), there: travel time calculation, p. 2
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.isv.uni-stuttgart.de
  3. ^ Peter Pez: Pedelec traffic revolution. Results of the travel time experiment in Lüneburg. Presentation 2012 (PDF; 1.9 MB)