EQUILIBRIUM QUEUEING PATTERNS AT A TWO-TANDEM BOTTLENECK DURING THE MORNING PEAK

This paper proposes a method of constructing equilibrium queueing patterns at a two-tandem bottleneck during the morning peak. The objective is to obtain cumulative arrival curves at each of the bottlenecks, given who passes both bottlenecks and who passes only one, and their desired arrival times at their work places. Each commuter using the freeway is assumed to have the same travel cost function which consists of time-dependent costs due to queueing delay and schedule delay. Commuter trips are assigned temporally so as to establish an equilibrium in which each commuter seeks to minimize his travel cost. The queue evolutions illustrate a service priority at the downstream bottleneck in favor of commuters passing only the downstream bottleneck. One of the countermeasures for this equity problem in the service priority would be to meter the favored commuters.

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• Authors:
  • Kuwahara, M
• Publication Date: 1990-8

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 217-229
• Serial:
  • Transportation Science
  • Volume: 24
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • ISSN: 0041-1655
  • Serial URL: http://transci.journal.informs.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bottlenecks; Commuters; Costs; Equilibrium (Systems); Freeways; Minimization; Peak periods; Queuing; Traffic assignment; Traffic delays; Traffic equilibrium
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00496728
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 31 1990 12:00AM