Monitoring the elasticity of travel demand with respect to changes in the transport network for better policy decisions during disasters.

ABSTRACT: When a disaster occurs, disaster management goes through a number of phases, namely normal, emergency response, adaptation, and recovery. Being able to identify the transition between these phases would be useful for policymakers, for example, in order to shift their focus from meeting the travel needs of affected people during the emergency response phase, to meeting travel needs for adaptation and recovery activities. This study proposes a data-driven method which may be useful for assessing phase transitions for transport management during a disaster. Specifically, we argue that changes in elasticities of travel demand with respect to changes in the transport network can be a useful indicator of phase transition, since they depict changes in consumers' tastes, i.e., changes in the degre

SUBMITTER: Safitri ND 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10358965 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature