Effects of Capacity Constraints on Peak Period Traffic Congestion

Moshe Ben-Akiva, André de Palma () and Pavlos Kanaroglou

Working Paper from Economics Department, Queen's University

Abstract: A model of peak period traffic congestion analyzes the effects of capacity constraints. The model predicts the temporal distribution of traffic volumes when the demand is elastic. In response to changes in traffic conditions travellers can switch to a different mode, alternate route. The delays are assumed to occur at bottlenecks and a queueing model is employed to determine the waiting time as a function of the length of the queue at the time of arrival at the bottleneck. The day to day adjustment of traffic is derived from a dynamic Markovian model. Numerical simulations demonstrate that elastic demand congestion may persist even when a bottleneck capacity is expanded to meet the highest level of existing traffic flows.

Pages: 29 pages
Date: 1985
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:qed:wpaper:627

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Paper from Economics Department, Queen's University Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Mark Babcock ().