Improved User Equilibrium Based Method for Estimating Trip Tables
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 126, Issue 6
Abstract
An optimal trip table correction function for the user equilibrium based trip table estimation problem is derived and used in place of Turnquist and Gur's heuristic trip table correction function. The derivation of this new correction function is based on a new concept—path equivalent capacity—that unifies the individual capacities of the links in a path into a single path capacity. Once a path between two zones is represented as a link with a single capacity, the travel time of the path can be computed directly for any path flow. This permits an optimal trip table correction function to be determined at each iteration of Turnquist and Gur's trip table algorithm. Test results show that the new method yields more accurate and consistent solution trip tables than the heuristic method.
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Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 126 • Issue 6 • December 2000
Pages: 492 - 497
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Received: Sep 29, 1999
Published online: Dec 1, 2000
Published in print: Dec 2000
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