Dynamics and Stochasticity in Transportation Systems

Giulio E. Cantarella is a full professor of Transportation Systems Analysis and Design in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Salerno, Italy. His research focus includes traffic analysis and control, travel demand assignment, transportation systems analysis and design, choice modeling, signal setting design, and urban network design. He has authored more than 100 book chapters and journal articles, including Elsevier’s Transportation Research Part B: Methodological and Transport Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, as well as Dynamics and Stochasticity in Transportation Systems (Part I). David Watling is a centenary professor of transport analysis for the Institute for Transport Studies, at the University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. He is an internationally recognized expert on the analysis, mathematical modelling, and optimization of transportation systems. His additional research areas include traffic network models, network reliability modelling and assessment, and visioning and alternative/qualitative paradigms for long-range transport planning. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for Elsevier’s Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. He has authored more than 60 journal articles, including in Elsevier’s Transportation Part Research B: Methodological, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, and Journal of Transport Geography. Stefano de Luca is an associate professor of Transportation Planning and Transportation Systems Theory in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Salerno, in Salerno, Italy, and he is the director of the Transportation Planning and Modelling Laboratory. His research focus includes transportation planning techniques, choice modelling, signal settings design, traffic assignment models and algorithms, freight/passenger terminal simulation and optimization. He advises city, regional, and national governments on transportation planning issues, and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Advanced Transportation and Sustainability. He has authored more than 100 book chapters and journal articles, in Elsevier’s Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Journal of Transport Geography and Transport Policy. Roberta Di Pace is a tenure-track assistant professor of transportation systems in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Salerno, in Salerno, Italy, and currently, she is a committee member of the department’s research commission and PhD program. Her research focus includes the traffic flow modelling and simulation, the development of analytical tools for Cooperative – Intelligent Transportation Systems and in particular for the advanced urban traffic management and the travellers’information systems, the modelling behaviour and the traffic assignment. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Advanced Transportation and the Mathematical Problems in Engineering.She has authored more than 50 book chapters and journal articles, including in Elsevier’s Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological and Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.

• Contributors Preface AcknowledgementsCHAPTER 1 Introduction Giulio Erberto CantarellaCHAPTER 2 Assignment to uncongested networks Giulio Erberto CantarellaCHAPTER 3 Assignment to congested networks: User equilibrium—Fixed points Giulio Erberto CantarellaCHAPTER 4 Assignment to congested networks: Day-to-day dynamics—Deterministic processes Giulio Erberto Cantarella, Stefano de Luca, Roberta Di PaceCHAPTER 5 Assignment to congested networks: Day-to-day dynamics—Stochastic processes Giulio Erberto Cantarella, David Paul WatlingCHAPTER 6 Assignment to transportation networks:Within-day dynamics Giulio Erberto CantarellaCHAPTER 7 Conclusion Giulio Erberto CantarellaPostface Appendix A: Discrete choice modeling with application to route anddeparture time choice Stefano de LucaAppendix B: Traffic flow theory Roberta Di PaceIndex