Computing dynamic user equilibria for large-scale transportation networks |
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Authors: | Mansoureh Jeihani Hanif D Sherali Antoine G Hobeika |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Charles E. Via, J, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0105, USA;(2) Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0118, USA |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we present an approach for determining dynamic user equilibria. The method is suitable for disaggregated microscopic and mesoscopic simulation-based models. It is a modification of the convex-simplex method, which disposes with the line search step, and controls the subset of travelers to be re-routed at each step while updating the link travel times after each assignment. To guarantee finite termination, a suitable stopping criterion is adopted. The proposed method is implemented within TRANSIMS, the Transportation Analysis and Simulation System, as a two-stage process that employs a combined use of link performance functions and a microsimulator in order to design a framework suitable for application to real transportation systems. To demonstrate this capability, we apply the developed methodology to a large-scale network, Bignet, which is part of the transportation city network of Portland, Oregon; and a medium-scale network, Blacksburg, Virginia; and provide some comparative analyses. Our results exhibit that an improved distribution of travelers is obtained while consuming less than 17–33% of the effort required by the current version of TRANSIMS. |
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Keywords: | Dynamic traffic assignment Dynamic user equilibrium TRANSIMS Convex-simplex method |
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