A Review of Current Practice in Network Disruption Analysis and an Assessment of the Ability to Account for Isolating Links in Transportation Networks

This paper presents a comprehensive review of the scholarly literature related to the field of network-disruption analysis. Research related to network disruption has progressed immensely since the late 1990s and now includes a wide variety of themes and approaches used to assess the impacts associated with a variety of disruptive events. Of particular relevance are those approaches which use repetitive link and/or node-removal methodologies to develop measures of network robustness or vulnerability (complementary concepts). More recently, various methods have begun to focus on the sequential application of equilibrium-based traffic assignments to measure the cost of a disruption to the network. It is crucial for these types of methods to handle the complexities of real-world transportation networks — one of which is the presence of isolating links in a network, which provide a single link to a particular region or subnetwork. A number of methods have attempted to deal with the problem of isolating links in different ways, but none has been ubiquitously successful. To develop a comprehensive and useful measure of transportation network robustness it is important to successfully address the issue of isolating network links.

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• Authors:
  • Sullivan, James L
  • Aultman-Hall, Lisa
  • Novak, David C
• Publication Date: 2009-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Illustrations; References;
• Pagination: pp 271-280
• Serial:
  • Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISSN: 1942-7867
  • EISSN: 1942-7875
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ytrl20/current

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Evaluation and assessment; Interrupted flow; Literature reviews; Measurement; Network links; Traffic flow theory; Traffic models
• Uncontrolled Terms: Traffic network disruption; Transportation networks
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I71: Traffic Theory;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01148541
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 25 2010 8:09AM