Abstract The estimation of pedestrian traffic in urban areas is often performed with computationally intensive microscopic models that usually suffer from scalability issues in large-scale footpath networks. In this study, we present a new macroscopic user equilibrium traffic assignment problem (UE-pTAP) framework for pedestrian networks while taking into account fundamental microscopic properties such as self-organization in bidirectional streams and stochastic walking travel times. We propose four different types of pedestrian volume-delay functions (pVDFs), calibrate them with empirical data, and discuss their implications on the existence and uniqueness of the traffic assignment solution. We demonstrate the applicability of the developed UE-pTAP framework in a small network as well as a large scale network of Sydney footpaths.
Highlights Developed a static traffic assignment framework for footpath networks. Proposed new link volume-delay functions for bidirectional pedestrian streams. Applied the proposed model to a large-scale footpath network of Sydney CBD.
Traffic assignment problem for footpath networks with bidirectional links
2022-09-22
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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