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MICHEL GENDREAU AND PATRICE MARCOTTE As an academic, Michael Florian has always stood at the forefront of transportation research. This is reflected in the miscellaneous contributions that make the chapters of this book, which are related in some way or a

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Applied Optimization Volume 63

Series Editors: Panos M. Pardalos University of Florida, U.S.A. Donald Hearn University of Florida, U.S.A.

Transportation and Network Analysis: Current Trends Miscellanea in honor of Michael Florian

Edited by

Michel Gendreau Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationelle (D/RO), Universiti de Montreal, and Centre de recherche sur les transports (CRT) and

Patrice Marcotte Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationelle (D/RO), Universite de Montreal, and Centre de recherche sur les transports (CRT)

SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 978-1-4419-5212-7 ISBN 978-1-4757-6871-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-6871-8

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Contents

Contributing Authors

xi

Preface

xiii

Preface

xv

Michael Florian -

Friend and colleague

xvii

Michael Florian -

Ami et collegue

xix

1 Allocation of railroad capacity under competition: a game theoretic approach to track time pricing

1

A. Bassanini, A. La Bella and A. Nastasi 1.1

Introduction

1

1.2

Model description

1.3

Customer choice and price competition

1.4

Track access and capacity pricing

1.5

Schedule requests and optimality issues

3 5 8 11

1.6

Numerical simulations

12

1. 7

Conclusions

15

References

16

2 Real Time Simulation of Traffic demand-supply interactions within DynaMIT M. Ben-Akiva, M. Bierlaire, H.N. Koutsopoulos and R. Miskalani

19

2.1

Introduction

19

2.2

DynaMIT

2.3

Demand

20 22

2.4

Supply

27

2.5

Demand-Supply interaction

32

2.6

Evaluation

33

2.7

Conclusion

35

References

35 v

vi

TRANSPORTATION AND NETWORK ANALYSIS -

CURRENT TRENDS

3

Implications of Marginal Cost Road Pricing for Urban Travel Choices and User Benefits

37

D. Boyce, K. Balasubramaniam and X. Tian 3.1

Introduction

37

3.2

The Combined Travel Choice Model and Its Implementation

38

3.3

Findings of the Travel Demand Analysis

40

3.4

Analysis of Alternative Pricing Strategies

46

3.5

Conclusions

47

References 4

A Dynamic User Equilibrium Model for Traffic Assignment in Urban Areas

47 49

L. Brotcorne, D. De Wolf, M. Gendreau and M. Labbe 4.1

Introduction

49

4.2

Problem Formulation

51

4.3

Existence of a User Equilibrium

60

4.4

Solution Algorithm

61

4.5

Numerical Results

63

4.6

Conclusion

68

References

68

5 Estimation of travel demand using traffic counts and other data sources E. Cascetta and A.A. Improta

71

5.1

Static estimation of O-D demand flows from traffic counts

5.2

Dynamic estimators of O-D matrices using traffic counts

5.3

Estimation