Spillback congestion in dynamic traffic assignment: A macroscopic flow model with time-varying bottlenecks

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1114-1138

  Gentile, Guido ^a   Meschini, Lorenzo ^a   Papola, Natale ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continuous time formulation of within day DTA; Explicit capacity constraints; Network loading through implicit path enumeration; Queue spillovers; Theory of kinematic waves

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

DYNAMIC TRAFFIC ASSIGNMENT; MACROSCOPIC FLOW MODEL; QUEUE SPILLOVERS;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FLOW MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

EID: 34848844412     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2007.04.011     Document Type: Article

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