Combined activity/travel choice models : time-dependent and dynamic versions

Hing Keung William Lam, H.J. Huang

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Abstract

To fully understand and predict travel demand and traffic flow, it is necessary to investigate what drives people to travel. The analysis should examine why, where and when various activities are engaged in, and how activity engagement is related to the spatial and institutional organization of an urban area. In view of this, two combined activity/travel choice models are presented in this paper. The first one is a time-dependent (quasi-dynamic) model for long-term transport planning such as travel demand forecasting, while the other one is a dynamic model for short-term traffic management such as instantaneous flow analysis. The time-dependent model is formulated as a mathematical programming problem for modeling the multinomial logit activity/destination choice and the user equilibrium route choice behavior. It can further be converted to a variational inequality problem. On the other hand, the dynamic model is aimed to find a solution for equilibrium activity location, travel route and departure time choices in queuing networks with multiple commuter classes. It is formulated as a discrete-time, finite-dimensional variational inequality and then converted to an equivalent “zero-extreme value” minimization problem. Solution algorithms are proposed for these two models and numerical example is presented for the latter. It is shown that the proposed modeling approaches, either based on time-dependent or dynamic traffic assignment principles, provide powerful tools to a wide variety of activity/travel choice problems in dynamic domain.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)323-347
Number of pages25
JournalNetworks and Spatial Economics
Volume3
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2003

Keywords

  • Combined activity/travel choice models
  • Dynamic traffic assignment
  • Variational inequality
  • Temporal activity utility
  • Queuing networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Software

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