Modeling of the city transport flows as applied to the Moscow agglomeration

A mathematical model of the transport system of a city or an urban agglomeration intended for forecasting the transport and passenger flows was described. It is distinguished for (i) modeling the differences in the structure of travels at different times of day as well as at different days of week and seasons and (ii) consistent use of the concept of “generalized cost” of travel as a criterion for estimating the paths and inter-district “transport” distances. The model was calibrated in practice for the transport network of the Moscow agglomeration which includes the city of Moscow and its suburbs where the major part of the population of the Moscow province is concentrated. The computer-aided realization was based on the TRANSNET integrated designer environment for transport flow modeling.