Boundedly rational departure time choice in a dynamic continuum user equilibrium model for an urban city

Based on Wardrop’s first principle, the perfectly rational dynamic user equilibrium is widely used to study dynamic traffic assignment problems. However, due to imperfect travel information and a certain “inertia” in decision-making, the boundedly rational dynamic user equilibrium is more suitable to describe realistic travel behavior. In this study, the authors consider the departure time choice problem incorporating the concept of bounded rationality. The continuum modeling approach is applied, in which the road network within the modeling region is assumed to be sufficiently dense and can be viewed as a continuum. The authors describe the traffic flow with the reactive dynamic continuum user equilibrium model and formulate the boundedly rational departure time problem as a variational inequality problem. The authors prove the existence of the solution to their boundedly rational reactive dynamic continuum user equilibrium model under particular assumptions and provide an intuitive and graphical illustration to demonstrate the non-uniqueness of the solution. Numerical examples are conducted to demonstrate the characteristics of this model and the non-uniqueness of the solution.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2024.103038
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191261524001620
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  • © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Yang, Liangze
  • 0000-0003-2604-0206
  • Du, Jie
  • Wong, S C
  • 0000-0003-1169-7045
  • Shu, Chi-Wang
• Publication Date: 2024-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 103038
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
  • Volume: 187
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0191-2615
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01912615

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Choice models; Departure time; Dynamic traffic assignment; Traffic flow; Travel behavior; Travel costs
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01930550
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 16 2024 9:00AM