@article{ref1,
title="Traffic assignment problem for footpath networks with bidirectional links",
journal="Transportation research part C: emerging technologies",
year="2022",
author="Lilasathapornkit, Tanapon and Rey, David and Liu, Wei and Saberi, Meead",
volume="144",
number="",
pages="e103905-e103905",
abstract="The estimation of pedestrian traffic in urban areas is often performed with computationally intensive microscopic models that usually suffer from scalability issues in large-scale footpath networks. In this study, we present a new macroscopic user equilibrium traffic assignment problem (UE-pTAP) framework for pedestrian networks while taking into account fundamental microscopic properties such as self-organization in bidirectional streams and stochastic walking travel times. We propose four different types of pedestrian volume-delay functions (pVDFs), calibrate them with empirical data, and discuss their implications on the existence and uniqueness of the traffic assignment solution. We demonstrate the applicability of the developed UE-pTAP framework in a small network as well as a large scale network of Sydney footpaths.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0968-090X",
doi="10.1016/j.trc.2022.103905",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2022.103905"
}