Spring 2010 Seminar Series

DATE: March 11th
LOCATION: E51-376
TIME: 4:15pm
Reception immediately following in the ORC Conference Room, E40-106

SPEAKER:
Terry Friesz

TITLE
Dynamic Traffic Assignment: History, Recent Results and Unanswered Questions

ABSTRACT
In this talk we present a review of the history of dynamic traffic assignment and results achieved by a variety of scholars. It is shown that many of the formulations proposed to date may be viewed as special cases of an appropriately defined infinite dimensional variational inequality and abstract network loading problem. Numerical comparisons of alternative models are also provided. Limitations of the current state of knowledge are noted, and some interesting unanswered research problems are identified.