Title:Recent progress in multi-state supernetwork modeling for travel demand analysis
Presenter:Fei Xiongliao
Time:2018.12.19 16:00-17:30
Location:A716
Abstract:
This talk includes three model extensions developed with co-workers centered at multi-state supernetwork modeling for travel demand analysis. Motivated by the potentially large share of shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) in the near future, the first topic concerns an activity-based bi-level system optimal model inclusive of a hub-based relocation strategy to moderate the supply and demand of SAVs, in which the lower-level captures the travelers’ activity-travel scheduling behavior by a tolerance-based dynamic activity-travel assignment (DATA) model and the upper-level determines the fleet size, initial distribution, and hubs of SAVs. To address the difficulty of scalability in the family of DATA models, the second topic discusses an improved column generation algorithm for speeding-up DATA. The algorithm adopts a varied temporal resolution scheme, combining exploration and exploitation strategies, to assign flows to narrow time regions rather than to the whole time horizon. The third model extension is about a new framework of dynamical activity-travel rational adjustment process in multi-state supernetworks based on a needs-based theory. This formalism couples dynamic activity generation, activity-travel scheduling, and traffic flow evolution in a strong sense, and offers appealing explanations for day-to-day traffic dynamics and equilibria.
About the presenter:
Feixiong Liao is an assistant professor (tenured) at the Urban Planning Group of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His fields of expertise include urban planning and transport studies. He received his Ph.D. from TU/e 2013. During his Ph.D. studies, he worked with a large consortium to examine how accessibility in the Netherlands' Randstad region can be improved by implementing synchronization strategies. His current research activities are focused on the developments of a large-scale model system of urban transportation planning.
