Development of Multi-Class, Multi-Criteria Bicycle Traffic Assignment Models and Solution Algorithms

Cycling is gaining popularity both as a mode of travel in urban communities and as an alternative mode to private motorized vehicles due to its wide range of benefits (health, environmental, and economical). However, this change in modal share is not reflected in current transportation planning and travel demand forecasting modeling processes. The existing practices to model bicycle trips in a network are not sophisticated enough to describe the full cyclist experience in route decision-making. The purpose of this paper is to develop a multi-class and multi-criteria bicycle traffic assignment model that not only accounts for multiple user classes by acknowledging that there are different types of cyclists with varying levels of biking experience, but also for relevant factors that may affect each user classes’ behavior in route choice decisions. The multi-class, multi-criteria bicycle traffic assignment model is developed in a two-stage process. The first stage examines key criteria to generate a set of non-dominated paths for each user class, and the second stage determines the flow allocation to each user’s set of efficient paths. Numerical experiments are then conducted to demonstrate the two-stage approach for the multi-class, multi-criteria bicycle traffic assignment model.

• Record URL:
  http://www.wmich.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/u883/2017/TRCLC_RR_15_10_0.pdf
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Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $105002
• Contract Numbers:

  DTRT13-G-UTC60

  TRC-15-10

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Transportation Research Center for Livable Communities

  Western Michigan University
  Kalamazoo, MI  United States  49009-5316

  Western Michigan University

  1903 W. Michigan Avenue
  Kalamazoo, MI  United States  49008-5241
• Project Managers:

  Dunn, Denise

• Performing Organizations:

  Transportation Research Center for Livable Communities

  Western Michigan University
  Kalamazoo, MI  United States  49009-5316

  Utah State University, Logan

  Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
  Logan, UT  United States  84332
• Principal Investigators:

  Chen, Anthony

• Start Date: 20150501
• Expected Completion Date: 20170630
• Actual Completion Date: 20170630
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers
• Subprogram: Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Algorithms; Bicycles; Mathematical models; Multiple criteria decision making; Network analysis (Planning); Route choice; Traffic assignment; Traffic forecasting; Travel demand
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01590162
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Center for Livable Communities
• Contract Numbers: DTRT13-G-UTC60, TRC-15-10
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Feb 9 2016 3:47PM