Assessing network vulnerability of degradable transportation systems: an accessibility based approach.

Author(s)
Chen, A. Kongsomsaksakul, S. Zhou, Z. Ming, L.E.E. & Recker, W.
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Abstract

Transportation networks are an indispensable component of everyday life in modern society. Disruptions to the networks can make people's daily lives extremely difficult as well as seriously cripple economic productivity. Network-based accessibility measures for assessing vulnerability of degradable transportation networks were developed. The accessibility-based vulnerability measures explicitly consider the interaction between the disrupted network and the multi-dimensional travel responses of the network users.To model different dimensions of travel behavioural responses, a combinedtravel demand model formulated as a variational inequality problem is adopted to estimate the utility-based accessibility measure that is consistent with random utility theory. Numerical examples are conducted to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed network-based accessibility measures forassessing vulnerability of degradable transport networks. The results indicated that the accessibility measures derived form the combined travel demand model are capable of measuring the consequences of both demand and supply changes in the network and have the flexibility to reflect the effects of different travel choice dimensions on the network vulnerability. For the covering abstract see ITRD E144727. Reprinted with permission of Elsevier.

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C 48411 (In: C 48400) /71 /72 / ITRD E144891
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In: Transportation and traffic theory 2007 : papers selected for presentation at the 17th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT17), held at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, UK from July 23 - 25, 2007, p. 235-262, 16 ref.

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