Route Choice with Real-Time Information

Route Choice with Real-Time Information
Author: Eran Ben-Elia
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2011-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9783844312553

In recent years information systems are being designed to assist people to make more efficient travel choices under conditions of growing uncertainty. Although travel demand modelers have analyzed the response to real-time information, usually this has been done under the questionable assumptions of rational decision-making. In reality, people can make completely different choices when their decisions are based on information or on experience. Improving behavioral assumptions could well increase the realism of transport demand models. This book describes an experimental approach to study route choice with real-time information. It provides both researchers and practitioners with valuable knowledge on the roles of information and learning in travel behavior and how statistics and state-of-the art discrete choice models can be applied to analyze and model travel behavior in risky and uncertain environments. This book will be especially useful to transportation policy makers and analysts, researchers and students.

Intelligent Transportation Related Complex Systems and Sensors

Intelligent Transportation Related Complex Systems and Sensors
Author: Kyandoghere Kyamakya
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2021-09-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3036508481

Building around innovative services related to different modes of transport and traffic management, intelligent transport systems (ITS) are being widely adopted worldwide to improve the efficiency and safety of the transportation system. They enable users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated, and smarter decisions on the use of transport networks. Current ITSs are complex systems, made up of several components/sub-systems characterized by time-dependent interactions among themselves. Some examples of these transportation-related complex systems include: road traffic sensors, autonomous/automated cars, smart cities, smart sensors, virtual sensors, traffic control systems, smart roads, logistics systems, smart mobility systems, and many others that are emerging from niche areas. The efficient operation of these complex systems requires: i) efficient solutions to the issues of sensors/actuators used to capture and control the physical parameters of these systems, as well as the quality of data collected from these systems; ii) tackling complexities using simulations and analytical modelling techniques; and iii) applying optimization techniques to improve the performance of these systems.

Adaptive Route Choice in Stochastic Time-dependent Networks

Adaptive Route Choice in Stochastic Time-dependent Networks
Author: Jing Ding-Mastera
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016
Genre:
ISBN:

Transportation networks are inherently uncertain due to random disruptions; meanwhile, real-time information potentially helps travelers adapt to realized traffic conditions and make better route choices under such disruptions. Modeling adaptive route choice behavior is essential in evaluating Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) and related policies to better provide travelers with real-time information. This dissertation contributes to the state of the art by estimating the first latent-class routing policy choice model using revealed preference (RP) data and providing efficient computer algorithms for routing policy choice set generation. A routing policy is defined as a decision rule applied at each link that maps possible realized traffic conditions to decisions on the link to take next. It represents a traveler's ability to look ahead in order to incorporate real-time information not yet available at the time of decision. A case study is conducted in Stockholm, Sweden and data for the stochastic time-dependent network are generated from hired taxi Global Positioning System (GPS) traces through the methods of map-matching and non-parametric link travel time estimation. A latent-class Policy Size Logit model is specified with two additional layers of latency in the measurement equation. The two latent classes of travelers are policy users who follow routing policies and path users who follow fixed paths. For the measurement equation of the policy user class, the choice of a routing policy is latent and only its realized path on a given day can be observed. Furthermore, when GPS traces have relatively long gaps between consecutive readings, the realized path cannot be uniquely identified. Routing policy choice set generation is based on the generalization of path choice set generation methods, and utilizes efficient implementation of an optimal routing policy (ORP) algorithm based on the two-queue data structure for label correcting. Systematic evaluation of the algorithm in random networks as well as in two large scale real-life networks is conducted. The generated choice sets are evaluated based on coverage and adaptiveness. Coverage is the percentage of observed trips included in the generated choice sets based on a certain threshold of overlapping between observed and generated routes, and adaptiveness represents the capability of a routing policy to be realized as different paths over different days. It is shown that using a combination of methods yields satisfactory coverage of 91.2%. Outlier analyses are then carried out for unmatching trips in choice set generation. The coverage achieves 95% for 100% threshold after correcting GPS errors and breaking up trips with intermediate stops, and further achieves 100% for 90% threshold. The latent-class routing policy choice model is estimated against observed GPS traces based on the three different sample sizes resulting from coverage improvement, and the estimates appear consistent across different sample sizes. Estimation results show the policy user class probability increases with trip length, and the latent-class routing policy choice model fits the data better than a single-class path choice model or routing policy choice model. This suggests that travelers are heterogeneous in terms of their ability and willingness to plan ahead and utilize real-time information. Therefore, a fixed path model as commonly used in the literature may lose explanatory power due to its simplified assumptions on network stochasticity and travelers' utilization of real-time information.

Strategic Decisions in Directed Networks

Strategic Decisions in Directed Networks
Author: Amnon Rapoport
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 597
Release: 2022-03-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 152757914X

This book collects and integrates the results of an extensive research program conducted by the authors over the past two decades. It spans the disciplines of transportation science, operations management, and behavioral economics, and consists of 16 chapters previously published in peer-reviewed academic journals and grouped under three topical sections: queueing, route choice, and departure time. The book focuses on strategic interactions in directed networks and laboratory experiments carefully designed to test the descriptive validity of the underlying theoretical models. The research question that unifies the chapters is: do the conclusions of theoretical literature account for the decisions of network users in controlled laboratory experiments? With several major qualifications, this book answers this question affirmatively.

Distributed Optimization, Game and Learning Algorithms

Distributed Optimization, Game and Learning Algorithms
Author: Huiwei Wang
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2021-01-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9813345284

This book provides the fundamental theory of distributed optimization, game and learning. It includes those working directly in optimization,-and also many other issues like time-varying topology, communication delay, equality or inequality constraints,-and random projections. This book is meant for the researcher and engineer who uses distributed optimization, game and learning theory in fields like dynamic economic dispatch, demand response management and PHEV routing of smart grids.

The Evolving Impacts of ICT on Activities and Travel Behavior

The Evolving Impacts of ICT on Activities and Travel Behavior
Author:
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0128162147

The Evolving Impacts of ICT on Activities and Travel Behavior, Volume Three in the Advances in Transport Policy and Planning series, assesses both successful and unsuccessful practices and policies from around the world on the topic. This new volume highlights ICT as a Resilient Travel Behavior Alternative; The Past, Present and Future of Travel Time Use; The Intersection of Transportation and Telecommunications in Demand Forecasting and Traffic Management; International Journey Planning System to Welcoming MaaS; An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between Mobile Internet Usage and Activity-Travel Behavior; Travel Time Perception and Time Use in an Era of Automated Driving, and more. Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors Presents the latest release in the Advances in Transport Policy and Planning series Updated release includes the latest information on the evolving impact of ICT on activities and travel behavior

Transport, Mobility, and the Production of Urban Space

Transport, Mobility, and the Production of Urban Space
Author: Julie Cidell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2015-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317486676

The contemporary urban experience is defined by flow and structured by circulating people, objects, and energy. Geographers have long provided key insights into transportation systems. But today, concerns for social justice and sustainability motivate new, critical approaches to mobilities. Reimagining the city prompts an important question: How best to rethink urban geographies of transport and mobility? This original book explores connections – in theory and practice – between transport geographies and "new mobilities" in the production of urban space. It provides a broad introduction to intersecting perspectives of urban geography, transport geography, and mobilities studies on urban "places of flows." Diverse, international, and leading-edge contributions reinterpret everyday intersections as nodes, urban corridors as links, cities and regions as networks, and the discourses and imaginaries that frame the politics and experiences of mobility. The chapters illuminate nearly all aspects of urban transport, from street regulation and roadway planning, intended and "subversive" practices of car and truck drivers, planning and promotion of mass transit investments, and the restructuring of freight and logistics networks. Together these offer a unique and important contribution for social scientists, planners, and others interested in the politics of the city on the move.