A MODIFIED LOGIT ROUTE CHOICE MODEL OVERCOMING PATH OVERLAPPING PROBLEMS. SPECIFICATION AND SOME CALIBRATION RESULTS FOR INTERURBAN NETWORKS
Random utility route choice models play a central role in stochastic assignment, to road networks. The usually adopted specifications for such models are Multinomial Logit (MNL) and Probit, both having pros and cons. In this paper a modified specification of the Logit model, named C-Logit, is proposed. The C-Logit overcomes the main shortcoming of MNL, ie unrealistic choice probabilities for paths sharing a number of links, while keeping a closed analytical structure allowing calibration on disaggregate data and efficient path flow computations when paths are explicitly enumerated. A behavioural interpretation of the C-Logit model is proposed by presenting it as a particular case of a wider class of implicit joint models of route perception-choice. In the second part of the paper a procedure for path enumeration is proposed, and MNL and C-Logit models are specified and calibrated from a sample of 1471 paths chosen by truck drivers on the Italian inter-city road network. The preliminary calibration results are promising and show significant improvements induced by both the commonality factor characterizing the C-Logit model and by label variables which can be seen as attributes explaining path perception. (A) For the covering abstract see IRRD 886400.
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Authors:
- CASCETTA, E
- Nuzzolo, A
- Russo, F
- Vitetta, A
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- Publication Date: 1996
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 697-711
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Conferences; Itinerary; Mathematical models; Networks; Roads; Traffic flow
- Uncontrolled Terms: Road networks; Selection
- ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 699: Itinerary; 6473: Mathematical model; 1053: Road network; 9072: Selection; 671: Traffic flow
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00732931
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
- ISBN: 0-08-042586-0
- Files: ITRD
- Created Date: Mar 24 1997 12:00AM