"Modeling Route Choice Behavior with Stochastic Learning Automata" by Kaan Ozbay, Aleek Datta et al.
 

Modeling Route Choice Behavior with Stochastic Learning Automata

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2001

Publisher

Transportation Research Board

First page number:

38

Last page number:

46

Abstract

Day-to-day route choice behavior of drivers is analyzed by the introduction of a new route choice model developed using stochastic learning automata (SLA) theory. This day-to-day route choice model addresses the learning behavior of travelers on the basis of experienced travel time and day-to-day learning. To calibrate the penalties of the model, an Internet-based route choice simulator (IRCS) was developed. The IRCS is a traffic simulation model that represents within-day and day-to-day fluctuations in traffic and was developed using Java programming. The calibrated SLA model is then applied to a simple transportation network to test if global user equilibrium, instantaneous equilibrium, and driver learning have occurred over a period of time. It is observed that the developed stochastic learning model accurately depicts the day-to-day learning behavior of travelers. Finally, the sample network converges to equilibrium in terms of both global user and instantaneous equilibrium.

Keywords

Automobile drivers; Learning models (Stochastic processes); Traffic engineering; Traffic flow; Travel time (Traffic engineering)

Disciplines

Applied Mathematics | Controls and Control Theory | Theory and Algorithms | Transportation

Language

English

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