Feedback Approaches to dynamic Traffic Assignment and Route Guidance

Markos Papageorgiou
Director of Dynamic Systems and Simulation Laboratory
Technical University of Crete

The seminar addresses issues, solution methods, simulation results, and a case study related to dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) and route guidance (RG) in road networks. After a short introduction, modeling needs arising from DTA and RG are discussed with particular attention paid to macroscopic approaches and the use of splitting rates by destination at bifurcations. Two distinct solution methodologies, iterative and one-shot (feedback), are outlined with particular focus on feedback approaches. Simulation results for two distinct hypothetical networks are aimed to illustrate the presented approaches. A real implementation case study for the city of Aalborg (Denmark) demonstrates the practical relevance of the feedback approach.