This paper considers a parking competition game where a finite number of vehicles from different origins compete for the same number of parking spaces located at various places in a downtown area to minimize their own parking costs. If one vehicle reaches a desired vacant parking space before...

This paper is concerned with development of improvement schemes for road networks under future travel demand uncertainty. Three optimization models, sensitivity-based, scenario-based and min-max, are proposed for determining robust optimal improvement schemes that make system performance...

This paper analyzes the dynamic traffic assignment problem on a two-alternative network with one alternative subject to a dynamic pricing that responds to real-time arrivals in a system optimal way. Analytical expressions for the assignment, revenue and total delay in each alternative are...

The limited driving ranges, the scarcity of recharging stations and potentially long battery recharging or swapping time inevitably affect route choices of drivers of battery electric vehicles (BEVs). When traveling between their origins and destinations, this paper assumes that BEV drivers...

This paper considers the problem of how to select highway projects for the build–operate-transfer (BOT) development with the objective of improving the social benefit while ensuring the marketability of those selected. The problem can be viewed as a tri-level leader–follower game and is...

As one component of traffic incident management systems, freeway service patrols (FSP) facilitate quick removal of incidents through faster response and reduced clearance time. This paper is to investigate how to allocate tow trucks among patrol beats to maximize the effectiveness of the FSP...

The performance of signal timings obtained by using conventional approaches for pre-timed control systems is often unstable under fluctuating traffic conditions. This paper presents three models to determine robust optimal signal timings that are less sensitive to fluctuations of traffic flows...

This paper presents a conceptual activity-based and time-dependent traffic assignment model. The temporal utility profiles of activities are employed to formulate the temporal activity choice behavior of individuals as a multinomial logit model. Route choice behavior is then described as the...