Handbook for Communicating Travel Time Reliability Through Graphics and Tables (2014) / Chapter Skim
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4 Introduction Reliability is a topic of great interest today. With the impacts of congestion, incidents, and other unforeseen circumstances, people are concerned about being able to get to work on time, catch flights, get to doctor's appointments, get children to and from day-care centers, and other events where being on time matters.
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5 The text that follows offers numerous ideas on how to communicate reliability information in graphical and tabular form. It endeavors to meet the needs of all these audiences, ranging from novices to experts, from those for whom reliability is of cursory interest to those who want to understand all of the details and nuances.
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6 It is easy to see that the path from A to G via A-B-D-F-G is the most reliable. It has the most links with good reliability and one with the best.
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