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Most likely origin-destination link uses from equilibrium assignment

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  • Janson, Bruce N.

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This paper formulates the problem of finding the most likely distribution of origin-destination (O-D) specific link volumes (called "link uses") from equilibrium assignment. Although an equilibrium assignment is unique in terms of aggregate link volumes, trips between different O-D pairs assigned to alternative paths between any node pair can be swapped among these paths such that total link volumes remain unchanged. Alternative link uses that yield identical aggregate link volumes can affect O-D specific estimates of fuel consumption, pollution emissions or development impacts. Equilibrium assignments found by methods of linear combinations, such as the Frank-Wolfe algorithm, may not represent most likely link uses. The problem of finding maximum entropy link uses (MELU) formulated herein is a multi-commodity optimum flow (max-flow at min-cost) problem with nonlinear flow-dependent link use costs. MELU does not require path enumeration or knowledge of used paths between zones, but it is NP-hard to solve and very sizable for large networks. An approximate solution technique is presented that finds likely link uses for realistic size problems. The method is to linearly combine successive F-W solutions using step sizes that seek a maximum entropy mix. The examples include other comparisons of trial link uses that indicate the extent to which they differ.

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  • Janson, Bruce N., 1993. "Most likely origin-destination link uses from equilibrium assignment," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 27(5), pages 333-350, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:transb:v:27:y:1993:i:5:p:333-350
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    1. Jun Xie & Yu (Marco) Nie, 2019. "A New Algorithm for Achieving Proportionality in User Equilibrium Traffic Assignment," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 53(2), pages 566-584, March.
    2. Xie, Chi & Kockelman, Kara M. & Waller, S. Travis, 2011. "A maximum entropy-least squares estimator for elastic origin–destination trip matrix estimation," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 45(9), pages 1465-1482.
    3. Kumar, Amit & Peeta, Srinivas, 2015. "Entropy weighted average method for the determination of a single representative path flow solution for the static user equilibrium traffic assignment problem," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 213-229.
    4. Louis Grange & Felipe González & Shlomo Bekhor, 2017. "Path Flow and Trip Matrix Estimation Using Link Flow Density," Networks and Spatial Economics, Springer, vol. 17(1), pages 173-195, March.
    5. Bar-Gera, Hillel, 2010. "Traffic assignment by paired alternative segments," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 44(8-9), pages 1022-1046, September.
    6. Michael Patriksson, 2004. "Sensitivity Analysis of Traffic Equilibria," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 38(3), pages 258-281, August.
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