Luuk Brederode , Lotte Gerards , Luc Wismans , Adam Pel , Serge Hoogendoorn
{"title":"Extension of a static into a semi-dynamic traffic assignment model with strict capacity constraints","authors":"Luuk Brederode , Lotte Gerards , Luc Wismans , Adam Pel , Serge Hoogendoorn","doi":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2249118","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2249118","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To improve the accuracy of large-scale strategic transport models in congested conditions, this paper presents a straightforward extension of a static capacity-constrained traffic assignment model into a semi-dynamic version. The semi-dynamic model is more accurate than its static counterpart as it relaxes the empty network assumption, but, unlike its dynamic counterpart, maintains the stability and scalability properties required for application in large-scale strategic transport model systems. Applications show that, contrary to static models, semi-dynamic queue sizes and delays are very similar to dynamic outcomes, whereas only the congestion patterns differ due to the omission of spillback. The static and semi-dynamic models are able to reach user equilibrium conditions, whereas the dynamic model cannot. On a real-world transport model, the static model omits up to 76% of collective losses. It is therefore very likely that the empty network assumption influences (policy) decisions based on static model outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48871,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica A-Transport Science","volume":"21 2","pages":"Pages 1-34"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41314066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zheyi Tan , Lu Zhen , Zhiyuan Yang , Lilan Liu , Tianyi Fan
{"title":"Multi-period emergency vehicle fleet redistribution and dispatching","authors":"Zheyi Tan , Lu Zhen , Zhiyuan Yang , Lilan Liu , Tianyi Fan","doi":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2243344","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2243344","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research paper delves into the intricate task of redistributing and dispatching emergency vehicles across multiple periods, while considering the unpredictable occurrence time and locations of traffic accidents. To address this challenge, we propose a two-stage stochastic programming model aimed at minimising the expected penalty cost in the face of various random scenarios. In the first stage, we determine a baseline schedule for redistributing the emergency vehicle fleets across multiple periods. In the second stage, we strategically dispatch the vehicle fleets to address traffic accidents in each scenario. To tackle this model, we employ a solution method based on variable neighbourhood search. We conduct numerical experiments and provide a real-world example to validate the effectiveness of the proposed model. Furthermore, we perform sensitivity analysis to extract managerial implications that can potentially enhance accident rescue efforts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48871,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica A-Transport Science","volume":"21 2","pages":"Pages 1-33"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45393936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal vehicle capacity and dispatching policy considering crowding in public bus transit services","authors":"Reza Mahmoudi , Saeid Saidi , S. C. Wirasinghe","doi":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2258996","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2258996","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the often overlooked impact of on-board crowding on operational and user costs in public transit systems, specifically within a many-to-many bus transit line with varying demand patterns. While previous research has used mathematical programming for similar problems, this paper employs analytical approaches to offer deeper insights and address fundamental questions. First, we propose an approach to determine optimal bus capacities, factoring in in-vehicle crowding costs, assuming a fixed headway. Second, we explore the optimal dispatching policy for buses with fixed capacities, considering crowding costs. Third, we optimize both headway and vehicle capacity simultaneously. Our findings reveal that optimal vehicle capacity correlates with average passenger trip length and the square root of crowding-discomfort costs, especially when crowding increases linearly with load factor. When both headway and capacity are variable, smaller vehicles with shorter headways are favored, particularly in moderate-demand scenarios, especially with cost-effective staff models like autonomous fleets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48871,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica A-Transport Science","volume":"21 2","pages":"Pages 1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136235685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ali Najmi , Travis Waller , Wei Liu , Taha H. Rashidi
{"title":"Integration of ridesharing and activity travel pattern generation","authors":"Ali Najmi , Travis Waller , Wei Liu , Taha H. Rashidi","doi":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2241570","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2241570","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper proposes a mobility system serving as an innovative platform that synchronises a ridesharing model and an Activity Travel Pattern (ATP) generator, enabling a synergistic enhancement of participants’ mobility experiences. Through system-level integration, it can significantly improve the performance of ridesharing systems while also exploring the intricate relationship between ridesharing and participants’ ATPs. Numerical examples demonstrate the advantages of ridesharing systems when armed with flexible/variable announcements from the ATPs-based participants. The results show that incorporating ATP-based announcements in the system increases the chances of finding a match, and the attractiveness of the ridesharing mode for participants is improved. Despite their lower number, ATP-based participants contribute significantly to finding matches and obtaining distance savings. The study also highlights the key role of tour gyration in the performance of the ridesharing system. It incentivises participants with distant activity locations to join the ridesharing system as ATP-based participants.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48871,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica A-Transport Science","volume":"21 2","pages":"Pages 1-34"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43106740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A toll-based approach for regulating hazmat transportation network considering boundedly rational route choice","authors":"Honggang Zhang , Wei Wang , Zhiyuan Liu","doi":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2259010","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2259010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper introduces a novel toll charge to regulate transportation of hazardous materials (hazmat), taking into account that carriers are bounded rational decision-makers. In the case of bounded rationality, the route choice behaviour of carriers is described based on the link-based perception error model. Then, a novel bi-level programming model is developed, which aims to minimise both total tolls and maximum total risk, while finding the shortest path according to certain perception errors. To effectively solve the proposed model, it is decomposed into two subproblems, and the particle swarm optimisation algorithm and K-shortest paths algorithm are designed. Furthermore, an extended model is developed to ensure risk equity between different links, where the constraints on maximum link risk are added. Numerical experiments are conducted to validate the proposed models and algorithms, demonstrating that maximum total risk can be effectively mitigated and risk equity between different links can be achieved.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48871,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica A-Transport Science","volume":"21 2","pages":"Pages 1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135396543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jieling Jin , Helai Huang , Ye Li , Gongquan Zhang , Yuxuan Dong , Bo Zhou , Hongli Xue
{"title":"Variable speed limit modelling to improve traffic safety and efficiency of mixed traffic flow by a two-stage framework","authors":"Jieling Jin , Helai Huang , Ye Li , Gongquan Zhang , Yuxuan Dong , Bo Zhou , Hongli Xue","doi":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2253476","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2253476","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A two-stage variable speed limits (VSL) modelling framework is proposed to enhance traffic safety and efficiency at freeway bottlenecks with mixed traffic flow comprising both human-driven and autonomous vehicles. The first-stage macroscopic VSL control framework is based on an extended cell transmission model (ECTM) and a VSL optimal control model. The ECTM serves as a traffic state predictor and characterises mixed traffic flow by modelling various characteristics such as driving behaviours and flow performance. The ECTM-based optimal control model aims to improve safety and efficiency. The second-stage microscopic validation framework is designed using the VISSIM_COM to validate the effectiveness and sophistication of the proposed VSL strategy. The proposed strategy is compared with a fixed speed limit strategy (FSL) and a VSL strategy considering only efficiency improvement (VSL_E). The results demonstrate that the proposed strategy improves traffic efficiency compared to the FSL and significantly outperforms VSL_E in traffic safety.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48871,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica A-Transport Science","volume":"21 2","pages":"Pages 1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42616246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing transportation network redundancy by integrating route diversity and spare capacity","authors":"Zijian Wang , Xiangdong Xu , Yuchuan Du","doi":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2266508","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2266508","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we develop a new transportation network redundancy measure by integrating the route diversity and spare capacity dimensions, which have been demonstrated as two complementary dimensions of redundancy and assessed separately in the literature. Instead of modelling redundancy as two separate measures with significantly different units and scales, an integrative measure is beneficial for comprehensive comparison and selection of redundancy enhancement schemes. Specifically, we represent the transportation network by adding a virtual link directly connecting each origin-destination (O-D) pair. The virtual link choice probability is affected by both the route diversity of the O-D pair and the spare capacity of these routes, which is used in the proposed measure. Numerical examples in the realistic Winnipeg network are conducted. The effectiveness of the proposed measure is further verified by applying it to identify the critical links in the Shanghai Expressway Network, where a severe traffic accident happened in 2016.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48871,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica A-Transport Science","volume":"21 2","pages":"Pages 1-30"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136211457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Farah A. Awad , Daniel J. Graham , Laila AitBihiOuali , Ramandeep Singh , Alexander Barron
{"title":"Benchmarking the performance of urban rail transit systems: a machine learning application","authors":"Farah A. Awad , Daniel J. Graham , Laila AitBihiOuali , Ramandeep Singh , Alexander Barron","doi":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2241566","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2241566","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban rail transit (URT) systems operate in heterogenous environments where their performance is affected by many exogenous factors. However, conventional benchmarking methods assume homogeneity of many of these factors which could result in misleading comparisons of performance. This study provides a methodological contribution to the transit benchmarking literature through a systemic data-driven method which accommodates heterogeneity among URT. A unique international dataset of 36 URT systems in year 2016 is utilised. Operators are clustered based on indicators of operational performance through machine learning algorithms which enables like-for-like comparisons of performances. Data envelopment analysis with bootstrapping is then used to evaluate operators’ efficiency performance within a cluster. Further, ANOVA and post-hoc tests are applied to explore variations and correlations among different aspects of performance. Our clustering results corroborate the natural geographic grouping of the systems. Further, we highlight the complexity of the definition of service quality in the transit sector.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48871,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica A-Transport Science","volume":"21 1","pages":"Pages 466-498"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59991244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reuben Tamakloe , Subasish Das , Emmanuel Kofi Adanu , Dongjoo Park
{"title":"Key factors affecting motorcycle-barrier crash severity: an innovative cluster-regression technique","authors":"Reuben Tamakloe , Subasish Das , Emmanuel Kofi Adanu , Dongjoo Park","doi":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2230310","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2230310","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Highway motorcycle-barrier crashes are uncommon but are associated with severe ramifications. Little has been done to understand the factors related to these crashes, making it difficult to establish appropriate mitigation policies. This study identifies homogeneous groups of motorcycle-barrier crashes on highways and investigates cluster-specific key factor associations and the determinants of injury severity. Cluster Correspondence Analysis was employed to discover latent clusters and cluster-specific key factor associations using motorcycle-barrier crashes from Massachusetts. Further, an ordered probit regression technique was employed to investigate the effect of factors on injury severity outcomes at the cluster level. Three highway access control type-related clusters were identified. While seniors, collectors, intersections/roundabouts, daylight, and summer were associated with no/partial access-controlled segment crashes, interstates, ramps, medians, dark-lighted roads, and winter correlated with full access-controlled segment crashes. Factors influencing fatalities differed for each cluster. From the insightful findings, targeted countermeasures geared at improving motorcycle safety are suggested.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48871,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica A-Transport Science","volume":"21 1","pages":"Pages 175-199"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46793946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimation of stochastic link capacity and link performance function including uncertainty of driver’s behaviour","authors":"Teppei Kato , Kenetsu Uchida , Ryuichi Tani , Kazunori Munehiro","doi":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2218943","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23249935.2023.2218943","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recently, user equilibrium models with uncertainty were proposed to describe stochastic travel time in road networks. The accurate estimation of a stochastic link capacity is important for such models. This study develops a method for estimating a stochastic link capacity by considering the uncertainty of the driver’s behaviour. We postulate that the stochastic link capacity follows a lognormal distribution. The characteristics of the lognormal distribution suit real traffic observation, e.g. nonnegativity, asymmetricity, and long-tailed. Furthermore, the estimated link capacity can derive the analytical likelihood function for the link performance function. Then, the link performance function can be estimated analytically by explicitly considering the source of uncertainty. The proposed methods can contribute to the estimation of stochastic link capacity and the link performance function for the user equilibrium model with stochastic travel time. A numerical calculation demonstrates the proposed method using real traffic observations in Sapporo, Japan.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48871,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica A-Transport Science","volume":"21 1","pages":"Pages 27-49"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41374798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}