Highlights Demonstrate issues with existing Path Size Logit (PSL) models. Propose a new internally consistent Adaptive PSL that addresses these issues. Proof of existence and uniqueness conditions for Adaptive PSL solutions. Adaptive PSL likelihood formulation and tracked route data MLE procedure. Estimation of PSL models on a large-scale network using real GPS data.

    Abstract Path Size Logit route choice models attempt to capture the correlation between routes by including correction terms within the route utility functions. This provides a convenient closed-form solution for implementation in traffic network models. The path size terms measure distinctiveness of routes; a route is penalised based on the number of other routes sharing its links, and the costs of those shared links. Typically, real road networks have many very long routes that should be considered unrealistic. Such unrealistic routes are problematic for the Path Size Logit (PSL) model because they negatively impact the choice probabilities of realistic routes when links are shared. The Generalised Path Size Logit (GPSL) model attempts to address this problem by weighting the contributions of routes to path size terms according to the ratio of route travel costs. However, the GPSL model is not internally consistent in how it defines routes as being unrealistic: the path size terms consider only travel cost, whereas the route choice probability relation considers disutility including the correction term. To solve these challenges, this paper formulates a new internally consistent Adaptive Path Size Logit (APSL) model wherein routes contribute to path size terms according to the ratio of route choice probabilities, ensuring that routes defined as unrealistic by the path size terms, are exactly those with very low choice probabilities. The APSL route choice probability relation is an implicit function, naturally expressed as a fixed-point problem. A proof is provided for the guaranteed existence of solutions, as well as conditions for the uniqueness of solutions. A Maximum Likelihood Estimation procedure is given for estimating the APSL model with tracked route observation data, and this procedure is investigated in a simulation study where it is shown it is generally possible to reproduce assumed true parameters. APSL is then estimated using real tracked route GPS data on a large-scale network, and results are compared with other PSL models..


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    Title :

    Path Size Logit route choice models: Issues with current models, a new internally consistent approach, and parameter estimation on a large-scale network with GPS data




    Publication date :

    2020-02-06


    Size :

    40 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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