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A Reliability-based User Equilibrium Model for Traffic Assignment

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One of the major problems encountered by traffic professionals is how to predict driver route choices in congested and unreliable road networks. Indeed, traffic flow prediction is of fundamental importance for strategic transport planning, network design and long-term road improvement problems. A new reliability-based user equilibrium (RUE) model is proposed in this Chapter, premising on the fact that drivers consider both travel time and reliability in their route choices (Lam and Small, 2001).

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  1. Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

    William H. K. Lam

  2. School of Economics and Management, BeiHang University, Beijing

    Ning Zhang

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

    Hong K. Lo

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  1. Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, 1036 Derby Hall 154 North Oval Mall, Columbus, Ohio, 43210, USA

    Alan T. Murray

  2. Department of Geography, Indiana University, 701 Kirkwood Ave Student Building 120, Bloomington, Indiana, 47405-7100, USA

    Tony H. Grubesic

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Lam, W.H.K., Zhang, N., Lo, H.K. (2007). A Reliability-based User Equilibrium Model for Traffic Assignment. In: Murray, A.T., Grubesic, T.H. (eds) Critical Infrastructure. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68056-7_8

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