Application of Micro-Simulation on Truck Route Choice Model

Abstract

The journey speed along an arterial road depends not only on the arterial road geometry but also on the traffic flow characteristics and traffic signal coordination. The reliability of travel time is one of the most important issues in the planning of logistical operations. The estimation of travel time information is a hard task. Most logistical models consider travel time as input data (vehicle routing problem, and some facility location problem) assuming an average travel time value based on probe vehicles, VICS, or volume-delay estimations such as BPR functions. In this paper, micro-simulation is used to incorporate the detailed dynamics of travel times into the route choice of freight vehicles as an alternative to improve the stochasticity of the travel times used by the logistical models.