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      The Impact of Digital Navigation on Travel Behaviour

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      travel behaviour, navigation, road traffic, minor roads, journey time, road traffic congestion, Built environment
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            Abstract

            Digital navigation – the combined use of satellite positioning, digital mapping and route guidance – is in wide use for road travel yet its impact is little understood. Evidence is emerging of significant changes in use of the road network, including diversion of local trips to new major road capacity and increased use of minor roads, which have problematic implications for investment decisions and for the management of the network. However, the ability of digital navigation to predict estimated time of arrival under expected traffic conditions is a welcome means of mitigating journey time uncertainty, which is one of the undesirable consequences of road traffic congestion. There is very little available information about the impact of digital navigation on travel behaviour, a situation that needs to be remedied to enhance the efficiency of road network operation.Digital navigation – the combined use of satellite positioning, digital mapping and route guidance – is in wide use for road travel yet its impact is little understood. Evidence is emerging of significant changes in use of the road network, including diversion of local trips to new major road capacity and increased use of minor roads, which have problematic implications for investment decisions and for the management of the network. However, the ability of digital navigation to predict estimated time of arrival under expected traffic conditions is a welcome means of mitigating journey time uncertainty, which is one of the undesirable consequences of road traffic congestion. There is very little available information about the impact of digital navigation on travel behaviour, a situation that needs to be remedied to enhance the efficiency of road network operation.

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            UCL Open: Environment Preprint
            UCL Press
            12 November 2021
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            [1 ] Centre for Transport Studies, UCL
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            https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6568-2941
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            10.14324/111.444/000106.v1
            654c15ba-f834-4f6e-b8f2-6b9449bcb7b5

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            : 12 November 2021

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            Social & Behavioral Sciences
            travel behaviour,navigation,road traffic,minor roads,journey time,road traffic congestion,Built environment

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            Date: 21 February 2022

            Handling Editor: Dr Francesco Aletta

            Editorial decision: Request revision. The Handling Editor requested revisions; the article has been returned to the authors to make this revision.

            2022-02-22 09:24 UTC
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            Date: 20 December 2021

            Handling Editor: Dr Francesco Aletta

            This article is a preprint article and has not been peer-reviewed. It is under consideration following submission to UCL Open: Environment for open peer review.

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