Transportation Planning
Subtitle: State of the Art (Applied Optimization)
Contributors: Michael Patriksson (Editor); Martine Labbé (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 31, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781402005466
Subjects: Economics; Transport industries; Transport planning & policy; Transportation; Linear Programming; Optimization (Mathematical Theory); Transportation Research; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; Business/Economics; Engineering - Civil; Business & Economics / Urban & Regional; Political Science / City Planning & Urban Development; Technology-Engineering - Civil; Development - General; Congresses; Planning
First sentence: Given the demand for travel (vehicles/hour) between pairs of origins and destinations, the traffic assignment problem is to allocate those flows to specific routes of a given network of nodes and links according to a given behavioral hypothesis.