Urban transportation network reliability calculation considering correlation among the links comprising a route

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1 Department of Engineering, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

2 Department of Industrial Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Recently, the researchers in the field of urban transportation network planning have become increasingly interested in network reliability, publishing research works focused on the calculation of various types of network reliability. Accurate calculation of network reliability has led the transportation network optimizers toward new approaches . Travel time reliability is among the most important reliabilities investigated when analyzing urban transportation networks, with various approaches based on different assumptions proposed for calculating it. In the present research, the uncertainty associated with the demand for travel and the flows passing across links and also the correlations among the links comprising a route were considered to calculate the travel time for each of the network links. Moreover, it was shown that this process follows shifted log-normal distribution. These calculations are expected to serve as a basis for the employment of travel time reliability of a network within the modeling of an urban transportation system, so as to increase the accuracy and reliability of the simulations. Finally, in order to validate the model, an urban network with 12 nodes, 21 links, and 4 origin-destination pairs was subjected to the travel time reliability assessment by calculating the travel time over all forming links.

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Scientia Iranica
Volume 29, Issue 3
Transactions on Industrial Engineering (E)
May and June 2022
Pages 1742-1754

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  • Receive Date: 27 December 2019
  • Revise Date: 26 June 2020
  • Accept Date: 24 August 2020

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