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This paper analyzes how congestion and stochastic perceived error in route choice behavior simultaneously affect traffic paradox using the traditional logit stochastic user equilibrium (SUE) model. This analysis is conducted on both a simple two-link network and the Braess’ network. The authors analyze not only the paradox corresponding to the total/average travel cost for two cases (i.e., marginal improvement and adding a link), but also the paradox corresponding to the total/average perceived travel cost in which a higher stochastic perceived error may decrease the travelers’ average travel cost. Some interesting insights are obtained. They may be helpful for traffic engineers and planners to deeply understand the complexity of traffic assignment paradox incorporating congestion and stochastic perceived error simultaneously.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB30 Standing Committee on Transportation Network Modeling.

18-05251

English

5p

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References

Errors; Multinomial logits; Networks; Stochastic processes; Traffic assignment; Traffic congestion

Stochastic user equilibrium

Highways; Planning and Forecasting

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-05251

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 11:19AM