Transit Users’ Route‐Choice Modelling in Transit Assignment: A Review (original) (raw)

This paper reviews the main studies on transit users' route choice in the context of transit assignment. The studies are categorised into three groups: static transit assignment; within-day dynamic transit assignment; and emerging approaches. The motivations and behavioural assumptions of these approaches are reexamined. The first group includes shortest-path heuristics in all-or-nothing assignment, random utility maximisation route-choice models in stochastic assignment, and user equilibrium based assignment. The second group covers within-day dynamics in transit users' route choice, transit network formulations, and dynamic transit assignment. The third group introduces the emerging studies on behavioural complexities, day-today and real-time dynamics in transit users' route choice. Future research directions are also discussed.