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Are the Objectives and Solutions of Dynamic User-Equilibrium Models Always Consistent?

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  • Lin, Wei-Hua
  • Lo, Hong

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Traffic assignment models are an important component in analyzing the relationship between demand and supply in the transportation network for design, planning, and control purposes. The static traffic assignment model has been used in practice for several decades. With the latest development in the area of Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS) and Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS), there is an increasing demand for dynamic traffic assignment models to serve as a basis for studying various issues in these areas. Existing dynamic user-equilibrium traffic assignment (DUETA) models are mostly expanded from the static user-equilibrium traffic assignment model by intro- ducing the time dimension along with a group of additional constraints. Whereas the equivalency between the solution to the traffic assignment model and the user-equilibrium condition as defined by Wardrop is well established in the static case, the same may not be true for the dynamic case. This paper examines the general form of DUETA models as proposed in previous research and shows that, if queuing behavior is represented in the model at a minimal level, the solution to conventional DUETA models with an objective function of the form Et Xi Jti(t) f(w)dw may not necessarily converge to or approximate the Wardropian user-equilibrium condition in the dynamic sense as defined by many researchers.

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  • Lin, Wei-Hua & Lo, Hong, 1996. "Are the Objectives and Solutions of Dynamic User-Equilibrium Models Always Consistent?," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt4n49f5m9, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.
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