TransportmetricaPub Date : 2008-01-01DOI: 10.1080/18128600808685687
D. Ngoduy
{"title":"OPERATIONAL EFFECTS OF ACCELERATION LANE ON MAIN TRAFFIC FLOW AT DISCONTINUITIES","authors":"D. Ngoduy","doi":"10.1080/18128600808685687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18128600808685687","url":null,"abstract":"Recent studies have indicated that on-ramp flow is important in the formation of the stop-and-go traffic flow near the ramp. Several models have been developed to explain the complex phenomena associated with ramps which result in the hysteretic phase transitions. A good understanding of the mechanisms of congestion near on-ramps is very useful for the development of suitable control and highway design measures. To this end, in this paper traffic flow operations on a freeway with an on-ramp are investigated based on a newly developed second order macroscopic model. The proposed model allows to take into account the influences of the acceleration lane length on the flow dynamics of the main carriageway. The main aim of this paper is, therefore, to investigate analytically and numerically the effects of acceleration lane length on traffic flow operations. It is found that different acceleration lane lengths result in various congested traffic states.","PeriodicalId":49416,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica","volume":"4 1","pages":"195 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/18128600808685687","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60524429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TransportmetricaPub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1080/18128600708685672
P. Bovy, Stella Fiorenzo-Catalano
{"title":"STOCHASTIC ROUTE CHOICE SET GENERATION: BEHAVIORAL AND PROBABILISTIC FOUNDATIONS","authors":"P. Bovy, Stella Fiorenzo-Catalano","doi":"10.1080/18128600708685672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18128600708685672","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the generation of choice sets for the purposes of route choice analysis and flow prediction in uni-modal and multi-modal networks. Ample attention is devoted to the implications for choice set generation of these various purposes. Based on a theory on choice behavior, a new model-based choice set generation approach will be elaborated, called the doubly stochastic choice set generation model, meant for establishing choice sets prior to the choice modeling step. Because of its stochastic principle, a typical property of the proposed generation approach is that the size and composition of the generated choice sets are stochastic variables. We will devote ample attention to these stochastic properties using theoretical derivations and experimental studies. The article reports on the calibration of this generation approach for multi-modal networks and illustrates the approach with a number of predictions in various networks.","PeriodicalId":49416,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica","volume":"3 1","pages":"173 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/18128600708685672","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60522861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TransportmetricaPub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1080/18128600708685668
D. Banister
{"title":"SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES","authors":"D. Banister","doi":"10.1080/18128600708685668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18128600708685668","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores sustainable transport within the European Union (EU), arguing that a strong sustainable transport definition needs to be used if targets set at Kyoto are to be achieved. The EU strategy is now (2006) based on modal shift, decoupling and technological innovation, weakening the more radical strategy set up in 2001. It seems that expansion of the EU, lower levels of growth, and the possibilities of continuing high costs of oil have resulted in changing priorities, but above all travel demand has continued to grow. The Kyoto targets are becoming much harder to reach. The paper then outlines the three groups of measures that have been promoted, looking at (1) technology and pricing, (2) regulation, taxation and congestion charging, and (3) land use, development and planning, arguing that strong action is required on all three sets of options. Even then, there is an additional requirement, namely the need to gain public acceptability through information, marketing and engagement so that positive outcomes can be matched up with policy intentions. Real progress towards reducing carbon emissions is possible provided that mutually supporting measures are taken, with political commitment to real change and public support for that change.","PeriodicalId":49416,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica","volume":"3 1","pages":"106 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/18128600708685668","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60522881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TransportmetricaPub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1080/18128600708685671
H. Ho, S. C. Wong, T. D. Hau
{"title":"EXISTENCE AND UNIQUENESS OF A SOLUTION FOR THE MULTI-CLASS USER EQUILIBRIUM PROBLEM IN A CONTINUUM TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM","authors":"H. Ho, S. C. Wong, T. D. Hau","doi":"10.1080/18128600708685671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18128600708685671","url":null,"abstract":"Consider a city with several facilities competing for multi-class users that are distributed continuously over space. Within the city region, the road network is relatively dense and is considered as a continuum. The demand distribution function is formulated as a logit-type function for modeling the probabilistic choice behavior of facilities for different classes of users. A minimization problem that describes this multi-class and multi-facility choice is set up for finding the user equilibrium flow pattern. This paper aims to study the existence and uniqueness of a solution of this multi-class and multi-facility user equilibrium problem with demand distribution. The assumptions and conditions for the existence and uniqueness of solution are given.","PeriodicalId":49416,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica","volume":"3 1","pages":"107 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/18128600708685671","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60523271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TransportmetricaPub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1080/18128600708685675
I. Spyropoulou
{"title":"SIMULATION USING GIPPS' CAR-FOLLOWING MODEL—AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS","authors":"I. Spyropoulou","doi":"10.1080/18128600708685675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18128600708685675","url":null,"abstract":"This study reports on an in-depth analysis of the properties of Gipps' car-following model. Certain properties of the model are investigated and the need of specific additions to the model is identified. Gipps' car-following model is rather important as it comprises the traffic model of several traffic simulation packages; and the analysis performed in this study determines the actual dynamics that govern model formulae. First, the relationships for the maximum acceleration and deceleration values the model produces are identified. Results indicate that model relationships are such that a vehicle could end up braking harder than its desired deceleration, hence a constraint has to be set. Furthermore, relationships between vehicle acceleration and speed are established. Second, further additions are proposed to allow the model simulate traffic at signal-controlled junctions. These additions include providing a definition for a queueing vehicle and speed manipulation to achieve the calculated saturation flow of simulated junctions.","PeriodicalId":49416,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica","volume":"76 1","pages":"231 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/18128600708685675","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60523319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TransportmetricaPub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1080/18128600708685665
A. K. Gupta, V. K. Katiyar
{"title":"A NEW MULTI-CLASS CONTINUUM MODEL FOR TRAFFIC FLOW","authors":"A. K. Gupta, V. K. Katiyar","doi":"10.1080/18128600708685665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18128600708685665","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a new continuum model and study some qualitative properties. The new model contains an additional speed gradient term (anisotropic term) in comparison to Berg's model (Berg et al., 2000, Physical Review E, 61, 1056–1066). This anisotropic term guarantees the property that the characteristic speeds can be made less than or equal to the macroscopic flow speed. We extend this model for multi-class traffic flow with heterogeneous drivers. Each user class is characterized by their choice of speeds in a traffic stream. The choice of the speed of a particular user class at any location on the highway is affected by the presence of all user class on that location. Numerical simulations show that the model is able to explain some of the observed traffic phenomena such as platoon dispersion that challenge old homogeneous models presented in the literature.","PeriodicalId":49416,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica","volume":"3 1","pages":"73 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/18128600708685665","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60522569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TransportmetricaPub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1080/18128600708685667
A. Sumalee
{"title":"MULTI-CONCENTRIC OPTIMAL CHARGING CORDON DESIGN","authors":"A. Sumalee","doi":"10.1080/18128600708685667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18128600708685667","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of a road pricing scheme varies greatly by its actual design and implementation. The design of the scheme is also normally constrained by several practicality requirements. One of the practicality requirements which is tackled in this paper is the topology of the charging scheme. The cordon shape of the pricing scheme is preferred due to its user-friendliness (i.e. the scheme can be understood easily). This has been the design concept for several real world cases (e.g. the schemes in London, Singapore, and Norway). The paper develops a methodology for defining an optimal location of a multi-concentric charging cordons scheme using Genetic Algorithm (GA). The branch-tree structure is developed to represent a valid charging cordon scheme which can be coded using two strings of node numbers and number of descend nodes. This branch-tree structure for a single cordon is then extended to the case with multi-concentric charging cordons. GA is then used to evolve the design of a multi-concentric charging cordons scheme encapsulated in the two-string chromosome. The algorithm developed, called GA-AS, is then tested with the network of the Edinburgh city in UK. The results suggest substantial improvements of the benefit from the optimised charging cordon schemes as compared to the judgemental ones which illustrate the potential of this algorithm.","PeriodicalId":49416,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica","volume":"3 1","pages":"41 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/18128600708685667","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60523096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TransportmetricaPub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1080/18128600708685666
HO H.W., S. C. Wong
{"title":"HOUSING ALLOCATION PROBLEM IN A CONTINUUM TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM","authors":"HO H.W., S. C. Wong","doi":"10.1080/18128600708685666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18128600708685666","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a city with a central business district (CBD) with a road network outside of the CBD that is relatively dense and is considered to be a continuum. In this transportation system, several classes of users with different perceptions and behavior are considered. Their demands are continuously distributed over the city, and their travel patterns to the CBD satisfy the user equilibrium conditions under which each individual user chooses the least costly route in the continuum to the CBD. A logit-type demand distribution function that incorporates housing rent and travel cost is specified to model the housing location choice behavior of the commuters. A bi-level model is set up for modeling the housing allocation problem in the continuum transportation system. At the lower level, a set of differential equations is constructed to describe this housing location and traffic equilibrium problem. We present a promising solution algorithm that applies the finite element method (FEM) to solve this set of differential equations. At the upper level, a constrained minimization problem is set up to find the optimal housing provision pattern that maximizes the total utility of the system. The FEM and convex combination method are proposed to solve the minimization problem with the sensitivity information from the lower level. A numerical example is given to show the workability of the proposed bi-level model and the effectiveness of the solution algorithm.","PeriodicalId":49416,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica","volume":"3 1","pages":"21 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/18128600708685666","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60522933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TransportmetricaPub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1080/18128600708685670
B. Heydecker, W. Lam, Ning Zhang
{"title":"USE OF TRAVEL DEMAND SATISFACTION TO ASSESS ROAD NETWORK RELIABILITY","authors":"B. Heydecker, W. Lam, Ning Zhang","doi":"10.1080/18128600708685670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18128600708685670","url":null,"abstract":"A new concept of network reliability is introduced to assess the performance of the road network. It is referred to as the travel demand satisfaction reliability (DSR). In order to understand this new concept, the attributes to recurrent travel demand are firstly investigated for the analysis of road network reliability. The latent travel demand (LTD) is then distinguished and estimated by elastic travel demand functions. The ratio of the equilibrium travel demand and LTD can be used to ascertain the extent of satisfying and revealing the latent travel demand (DSI), which is affected by both the uncertainty of the network degradation and of the recurrent travel demand. The DSR is defined as the probability that the road network can accommodate a given DSI. The DSR can be extended to include other reliability measures such as travel time reliability under certain conditions. In order to facilitate the presentation of the essential ideas, simple examples are employed for discussion together with mathematical formulation.","PeriodicalId":49416,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica","volume":"3 1","pages":"139 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/18128600708685670","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60523202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TransportmetricaPub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1080/18128600708685664
D. Boyce, Cherry Xiong
{"title":"FORECASTING TRAVEL FOR VERY LARGE CITIES: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHINA","authors":"D. Boyce, Cherry Xiong","doi":"10.1080/18128600708685664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18128600708685664","url":null,"abstract":"Urban travel forecasting, a component of the field of urban transportation planning, has entered its sixth decade, having been introduced in the early 1950s in North America, from which it spread to other developed countries, and then to developing countries such as China. Although this field is relatively mature, many new research directions are being pursued; at the same time practitioners experience ongoing difficulties with applying commercial software systems in correct and meaningful ways. China is presently undergoing rapid urbanization, implying major investments in road and transit systems, as well as airports and intercity surface transportation systems. Wise investment decisions require forecasts of future urban travel in China's congested cities. To understand the state of travel forecasting, the authors recently held discussions with professionals at several planning agencies of China's largest cities, as well as university departments engaged in related teaching and research. Our objective here is to relate the general findings and impressions from these discussions, as well as the message we presented to the seminar participants.","PeriodicalId":49416,"journal":{"name":"Transportmetrica","volume":"3 1","pages":"1 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/18128600708685664","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60522459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}