Development and calibration of a long-distance passenger traffic assignment model Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2015 Taylor & Francis. This paper studies the assignment of long-distance passenger traffic on a highway corridor network. First, we propose a traditional model for the long-distance traffic assignment considering interactions with local commuter traffic. It addresses the effect of local networks on highway corridors. An iterative algorithm is developed to solve for the exact solution. Then, to address the potential computational issues that arise therein, a decomposition method is proposed by introducing a new concept of corridor elasticity. An assignment procedure for long-distance passenger traffic is developed accordingly. Numerical tests show that the proposed decomposition method makes significant improvements in computational performance at a small loss of optimality. This decomposition method well approximates the exact assignment from the traditional formulation, especially when the highway corridors are near-saturation. The proposed decomposition method appears practical for application.

published proceedings

  • TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND TECHNOLOGY

author list (cited authors)

  • Wang, W., Wang, X. B., & Dong, J.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Wang, Wen||Wang, Xiubin Bruce||Dong, Jing

publication date

  • August 2015