Comparative study of route choice models for cyclists

Abstract

This paper presents a comparison of different route choice models for cyclists. The data includes approx. 3,700 cycling trajectories. The network is derived based on the Open-Street-Map that contains street-level attribute information. We estimate two path-based and one link-based models. We present descriptive statistics, model results, resulting indicators, and compare different validation approaches. The results reveal important differences across the models, especially in context of applications and policy-making.