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Title:

Network Evaluation with Uncertain and Correlated Long-Term Demand

Accession Number:

01024488

Record Type:

Component

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Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Predictions of future travel demands are inherently uncertain, implying that future network performance cannot be predicted with certainty. Assuming demand is deterministic, as is typically done in transportation planning, can result in inaccurate measures of network performance that may lead to incorrect policy decisions. This work presents a methodology for treating long-term origin-destination demands as random and possibly correlated in solving for user equilibrium. The effects of various types of correlations and distributions of travel demand on network performance are tested through numerical analysis. The results indicate that neglecting correlations between origin-destination demands can lead to inaccurate measures of network performance. Multiple sampling approaches are tested to determine the most efficient method for achieving accurate estimates of network performance.

Monograph Accession #:

01020180

Report/Paper Numbers:

06-1767

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Waller, S Travis
Unnikrishnan, Avinash

ORCID 0000-0001-6737-0485

Duthie, Jennifer

Pagination:

22p

Publication Date:

2006

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2006-1-22 to 2006-1-26
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

CD-ROM

Features:

Figures; References; Tables (1)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2006 Paper #06-1767

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Mar 3 2006 10:47AM