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A general stochastic process for day-to-day dynamic traffic assignment: Formulation, asymptotic behaviour, and stability analysis

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  • Cantarella, Giulio E.
  • Watling, David P.

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This paper presents a general modelling approach to day-to-day dynamic assignment to a congested network through discrete-time stochastic and deterministic process models including an explicit modelling of users’ habit as a part of route choice behaviour, through an exponential smoothing filter, and of their memory of network conditions on past days, through a moving average or an exponentially smoothing filter. An asymptotic analysis of the mean process is carried out to provide a better insight. Results of such analyses are also used for deriving conditions, about values of the system parameters, assuring that the mean process is dissipative and/or converges to some kind of attractor. Numerical small examples are also provided in order to illustrate the theoretical results obtained.

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  • Cantarella, Giulio E. & Watling, David P., 2016. "A general stochastic process for day-to-day dynamic traffic assignment: Formulation, asymptotic behaviour, and stability analysis," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 92(PA), pages 3-21.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:transb:v:92:y:2016:i:pa:p:3-21
    DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2016.05.005
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