Using the Average Wage Rate to Assess the Merit of Value of Travel Time Savings: A Concern and Clarification

There is a renewed reference to relating the value of travel time to the average wage rate with 40 percent mentioned as the benchmark. This rigid link may have had value when interest focussed on a single homogeneous measure of a single trip travel time and working hours were somewhat rigid for the...

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Main Author: David Hensher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Network Design Lab
Series:Transport Findings
Online Access:http://transportfindings.scholasticahq.com/article/5772-using-the-average-wage-rate-to-assess-the-merit-of-value-of-travel-time-savings-a-concern-and-clarification.pdf