Article ID: | iaor20052695 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 83 |
End Page Number: | 96 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2003 |
Journal: | Transportation Science |
Authors: | Carey Malachy, McCartney Mark, Ge Y.E. |
Keywords: | networks: flow |
In network models for dynamic traffic assignment the link travel times are often described by ‘whole-link’ models. In particular, they have been expressed as a function of the number of vehicles currently on the link. Such whole-link models are useful approximations and make the network model tractable when flows and travel times are varying over time. Here we propose an alternative whole-link model to approximate travel times. For a vehicle entering a link at time