Abstract The standard discrete transportation models, which attempt to determine traffic flow on every link of a transportation network, are inapplicable to complex dense urban networks, in view of the amount of computation involved. In this paper we adopt a radically new point of view and construct a family of models based on the assumption of continuous traffic distribution over the network. We derive the flow conservation equations and the equilibrium conditions for user-optimized and system-optimized networks.


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    Title :

    Continuum modelling of transportation networks


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    Publication date :

    1979-07-24


    Size :

    7 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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