Journal
COGENT ENGINEERING
Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS AS
DOI: 10.1080/23311916.2014.961345
Keywords
transportation network modeling; traffic simulation; traffic demand estimation; dynamic traffic assignment
Categories
Funding
- FHWA project
Ask authors/readers for more resources
A number of emerging dynamic traffic analysis applications, such as regional or statewide traffic assignment, require a theoretically rigorous and computationally efficient model to describe the propagation and dissipation of system congestion with bottleneck capacity constraints. An open-source light-weight dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) package, namely DTALite, has been developed to allow a rapid utilization of advanced dynamic traffic analysis capabilities. This paper describes its three major modeling components: (1) a light-weight dynamic network loading simulator that embeds Newell's simplified kinematic wave model; (2) a mesoscopic agent-based DTA procedure to incorporate driver's heterogeneity; and (3) an integrated traffic assignment and origin-destination demand calibration system that can iteratively adjust path flow volume and distribution to match the observed traffic counts. A number of real-world test cases are described to demonstrate the effectiveness and performance of the proposed models under different network and data availability conditions.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available