 Morning commute in a single-entry traffic corridor with early and late arrivalsChuan-Yao Li and Hai-Jun Huang () Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2017, vol. 97, issue C, 23-49 Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to extend the work of DePalma and Arnott (2012) by investigating the solutions for social optimum (SO) and user equilibrium (UE) assignment in a single-entry traffic corridor with consideration of both early and late arrivals. The LWR model and the Greenshields’ relation are used to describe the dynamic properties of traffic flow. The closed-form SO solution and quasi-analytic UE solution are developed and well illustrated by numerical examples. It is shown that the SO assignment is associated with a smooth cumulative outflow curve, while the UE assignment will result in recursively generated cumulative inflow and outflow curves. In UE, however, the system finally becomes a free flow state. Keywords: Corridor; Morning commute; Social optimum; User equilibrium; Congestion (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:transb:v:97:y:2017:i:c:p:23-49 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2016.11.008 Access Statistics for this article Transportation Research Part B: Methodological is currently edited by Fred Mannering More articles in Transportation Research Part B: Methodological from Elsevier |
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