Effective identification of traffic network bottlenecks is a fundamental aspect of preventing traffic congestion and ameliorating traffic network conditions. In this paper, bottlenecks have been analyzed systematically based on traffic equilibrium assignment theory, and we propose a simplified and abstract traffic network method with the groups as virtual nodes and traffic channels between groups as virtual links; based on the virtual traffic network, the model of traffic equilibrium assignment is used to obtain the virtual traffic network’s equilibrium flow. The ratio of virtual road network’s equilibrium flow and its capacity is set as the corresponding parameter, compared with the standard of bottleneck identification to identify the bottleneck. The proposed model is employed in simulating congestion bottleneck identification under different traffic demands. Additionally, we use the traffic network of Nanjing urban districts as a case to verify the feasibility of the method of virtual traffic networks to identify network bottlenecks.


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    Title :

    The Identification of Virtual Traffic Bottleneck Based on Traffic Equilibrium Assignment


    Contributors:
    Wu, Lijia (author) / Lu, Jian (author) / Li, Yunxuan (author)

    Conference:

    17th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals ; 2017 ; Shanghai, China


    Published in:

    CICTP 2017 ; 2516-2523


    Publication date :

    2018-01-18




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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