We present a method of predicting pedestrian route choice behavior and physical congestion during the evacuation of indoor areas with internal obstacles. Under the proposed method, a network is first constructed by discretizing the space into regular hexagonal cells and giving these cells...

In this paper, we study various parking management schemes in a many-to-one network, where each origin is connected to the destination by a highway with a bottleneck and a parallel transit line. First, we derive a model to compute the morning commuting pattern when the destination has inadequate...

To study the complex environmental characteristics of the modern Yellow River Delta (YRD), the interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) time series analysis technique based on 39 ERS1/2 SAR images was applied to obtain the spatial distribution and temporal changes of ground displacement...

Multilane widely exists in the urban traffic system and its traffic flow is more complex than the single-lane traffic flow since it may be affected by each lane’s width, the number of lanes and lane-changing. In this paper, we first use empirical data to study the impacts of lane width and the...

A general dynamical system model with link-based variables is formulated to characterize the processes of achieving equilibria from a non-equilibrium state in traffic networks. Several desirable properties of the dynamical system model are established, including the equivalence between its...

This paper introduces a bi-objective turning restriction design problem (BOTRDP), which aims to simultaneously improve network traffic efficiency and reduce environmental pollution by implementing turning restrictions at selected intersections. A bi-level programming model is proposed to...

For studying carpooling problems, this paper presents two models, namely deterministic and stochastic, and gives the economic explanations to the model solutions. We investigate the jockeying behavior of work commuters between carpooling and driving alone modes through solving each model for...

High-occupancy-vehicle (HOV) lanes and toll differentiation have been used as efficient measures to address growing traffic congestion problems by providing priority treatment for buses and carpools. This paper deals with carpooling behavior and optimal congestion pricing in a multilane highway...

Horowitz (1989) proposed a modification of Evans' algorithm for solving the combined trip distribution and assignment model with a reduction in computational time and memory, but without proof of convergence. It is shown here that his modified algorithm does not always converge to the optimal...