Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysi (NEW!!)
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Author: Fred L. Mannering, Scott S. Washburn
Publisher: WILEY
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Three routes connect an origin-destination pair with performance functions:t₁ = 20 +0.5x1t2 = 4+ 2x2t3=3+0.2x3with t in minutes and x in thousand vehicles per hour.(a) Determine the User Equilibrium flow on each route if q = 4000veh/h. (b) What is the minimum q (origin-destination demand) to ensure that all the three routes are used under user equilibrium? (c) Suppose that Route 1 is closed for repair. Find the system optimal flow on routes 2 and 3 and compute the total travel times.
Two routes connect an origin-destination pair with performance functions t₁ = 5 + (x₁/2)² and t₂ = 7+ (x2/4)² (with t's in minutes and x's in thousands of vehicles per hour). It is known that at user equilibrium, 75% of the origin-destination demand takes route 1. What percentage would take route 1 if a system-optimal solution were achieved, and how much travel time would be saved?
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