After an extended review process that lasted nearly two years, this paper finally came out in Transportation Research Part B.  Thanks Ruijie, the first author, for his extraordinary patience and commitment to scholarship, which have become a rare commodity in today’s hyper-competitive research environment that prioritizes productivity over everything else.

A pre-print of the paper was posted in September 2022 on SSRN, under a different title and with slightly different contents.  You may check it here if you don’t have Elsevier subscription.