Bilevel programming applied to optimising urban tranportation

Bilevel programming applied to optimising urban tranportation

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Article ID: iaor20013443
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 35
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 41
End Page Number: 70
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Journal: Transportation Research. Part B: Methodological
Authors: , , ,
Keywords: urban affairs, programming: linear
Abstract:

This paper outlines a multi-modal, elastic, equilibrium transportation model in which signal green-times and prices charged to traverse a route (public transport fares, parking charges or road-use charges) are explicitly included. An algorithm is specified which, for a fairly general objective function, continually moves current traffic flows, green-times and prices within the model toward locally optimal values while taking account of users' responses. The directions of movement of current traffic flows, green-times and prices are determined by solving linear approximations to the actual problem. The results of applying a simplified form of the algorithm to a small network model with five routes and two signal-controlled junctions are given. It is proved that under realistic conditions the sequence of (traffic flows, green-times, prices) triples generated by the algorithm does indeed approach those triples which possess a reasonable local optimality property. However the optimal control problem discussed here is non-convex and just a Karush–Kuhn–Tucker point is the ‘answer’ sought.

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