Continuous Equilibrium Network Design Model under Demand and Capacity Uncertainty

Transport network planning and construction face many uncertain factors. In order to reduce investment risk this study proposes a robust continuous equilibrium network design model under demand and capacity uncertainty. Transport demand and link capacity are taken as random variables with known probability distributions. The link generalized cost function considering degradable capacity is set up first. Then a bi-level programming model is formulated to determine the capacity improvement. In the lower level program the authors propose a stochastic user equilibrium model under each demand realization. Instead of finding the optimal solutions for a given future demand scenario, the goal of the road manger in the upper level program is to minimize the weighted sum of expected value and variance of the system all over the demand realizations. A numerical example of a small network is presented to illustrate the benefit of this model. Results shows that the importance of accounting for uncertain demand and degradable capacity in continuous network design problem simultaneously.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1061/41039(345)559
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2009 American Society of Civil Engineering.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

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  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Authors:
  • Bian, Changzhi
  • Lu, Huapu
  • Yu, Xinxin
• Conference:
  • Second International Conference on Transportation Engineering
  • Location: Chengdu , China
  • Date: 2009-7-25 to 2009-7-27
• Publication Date: 2009-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 3393-339
• Monograph Title: International Conference on Transportation Engineering 2009

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer programming; Highway capacity; Highway design; Highway planning; Links (Networks); Networks; Traffic equilibrium; Traffic models; Travel demand
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01534720
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784410394
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Aug 15 2014 2:10PM