This paper presents recent developments of the dynamic traffic simulation model METROPOLIS. This tool is based primarily on the modeling and analysis of information learning and processing by road users. This simulation tool depicts the morning peak commute in large urban areas. Route choice and...

This paper extends research in dynamic traffic modeling using METROPOLIS, a dynamic simulation tool. We briefly present an overview of the original departure time choice model introduces by W. Vickrey (1969) for a single O-D pair. Using this framework for our analysis, we explore how the...

This paper presents new models and methodologies for the assessment of innovative urban transport systems and policies options. The dynamic traffic model METROPOLIS (used here in the framework of the EC project AIUTO) estimates the impact of a set of transport demand management measures on the...

We present a general framework for understanding the transition from local regular to global irregular (chaotic) behavior of nonlinear dynamical models in discrete time. The fundamental mechanism is the unfolding of quadratic tangencies between the stable and the unstable manifolds of periodic...