Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/273822 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. TI 2023-011/VIII
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
Using commuting data for Brisbane, Australia, we find that accounting for measurement error in travel times causes the magnitude of parameters in mode and location choice models to increase approximately three-fold and 30–40%, respectively. Errors appear to be somewhat systematic, with travel times being underestimated for short journeys and vice versa for long journeys—especially by public transport. We find similar results when we use alternative transport cost measures and independent commuting data from London. Our findings are likely to have important implications for transport and land use policy as well as the many types of economic models in which travel times—and transport costs, more generally—occupy a central role.
Subjects: 
mode choice
location choice
travel times
measurement error
Australia
JEL: 
C13
R14
R41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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