well-travelled road effect

is a cognitive bias in which travellers estimate the time taken to traverse familiar routes as shorter time than unfamiliar routes.

The well travelled road effect is a cognitive bias in which travellers will estimate the time taken to traverse routes differently depending on their familiarity with the route. Frequently travelled routes are assessed as taking a shorter time than unfamiliar routes. (wikipedia)

is the tendency to underestimate the duration taken to traverse oft-traveled routes and overestimate the duration taken to traverse less familiar routes.

the Well-travelled road effect is the tendency to underestimate the duration taken to traverse oft-traveled routes and overestimation of the duration taken to traverse less familiar routes.

well travelled road effect, n.Definitions

well travelled road effect