01015554

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https://doi.org/10.3141/1921-02

http://scholar.google.com...rata&publication_year=2005

The network equilibrium model is a useful tool for long-term transportation planning and is one promising alternative to the traditional four-step travel forecasting model. However, some issues with the model remain to be considered. For example, almost all variations of the model adhere to the traditional trip-based approach, in which trip chains made by users are treated as separate, independent entities in the analysis. This research aims to develop a simple, tractable model to overcome this problem. One proposed model is based on piston-type trip chaining, and another accommodates any other type of trip chaining and includes congestion phenomena. These proposed models have certain key features: they have been successfully formulated as convex minimization problems, so uniqueness and algorithm convergence are easily proved; traveler behavior is based on theoretically sound random utility models, which allows the benefit of transportation projects to be calculated such that it is consistent with travel demand forecasting; and optimal road pricing can be calculated even in large-scale networks. These models are examined with the use of simple network examples, with special attention paid to the effect of trip-chaining behavior at the level of second-best toll. In a simple two-destination network, the second-best toll of the trip-based model is lower than that of trip chain-based model, indicating one of the biases of the trip-based model.

01015546

English

pp 11-18

2005

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

0309093953

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Figures (5) ; References (19) ; Tables (5)

Forecasting; Network analysis (Planning); Road pricing; Travel behavior; Travel demand; Trip chaining

Network equilibrium model

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

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 18 2006 1:35PM

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