Morning commute in a single‐entry traffic corridor with no late arrivals

Morning commute in a single‐entry traffic corridor with no late arrivals

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Article ID: iaor201111761
Volume: 46
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 1
End Page Number: 29
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Journal: Transportation Research Part B
Authors: ,
Keywords: simulation: applications
Abstract:

This paper analyzes a model of early morning traffic congestion, that is a special case of the model considered in . A fixed number of identical vehicles travel along a single‐lane road of constant width from a common origin to a common destination, with LWR flow congestion and Greenshields’ Relation. Vehicles have a common work start time, late arrivals are not permitted, and trip cost is linear in travel time and time early. The paper explores traffic dynamics for the social optimum, in which total trip cost is minimized, and for the user optimum, in which no vehicle’s trip cost can be reduced by altering its departure time. Closed‐form solutions for the social optimum and quasi‐analytic solutions for the user optimum are presented, along with numerical examples, and it is shown that this model includes the bottleneck model (with no late arrivals) as a limit case where the length of the road shrinks to zero.

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