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DTA2012 Symposium: Combining Disaggregate Route Choice Estimation with Aggregate Calibration of a Dynamic Traffic Assignment Model

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Dynamic Traffic Assignment (DTA) models are important decision support tools for transportation planning and real-time traffic management. One of the biggest obstacles of applying DTA in large-scale networks is the calibration of model parameters, which is essential for the realistic replication of the traffic condition. This paper proposes a methodology for the simultaneous demand-supply DTA calibration based on both aggregate measurements and disaggregate route choice observations to improve the calibration accuracy. The calibration problem is formulated as a bi-level constrained optimization problem and an iterative solution algorithm is proposed. A case study in a highly congested urban area of Beijing using DynaMIT-P is conducted and the combined calibration method improves the fits to surveillance data compared to the calibration based on aggregate measurements only.

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room 1-181, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Moshe Ben-Akiva

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts, 214C Marston Hall, 130 Natural Resources Rd, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA

    Song Gao

  3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Lu Lu

  4. Google Inc., 76 9th Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY, 10011, USA

    Yang Wen

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Ben-Akiva, M., Gao, S., Lu, L. et al. DTA2012 Symposium: Combining Disaggregate Route Choice Estimation with Aggregate Calibration of a Dynamic Traffic Assignment Model. Netw Spat Econ 15, 559–581 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11067-014-9232-z

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