Abstract
This paper focuses on the development of a dynamic multi-class assignment for evaluation and application of the dynamic route guidance strategy. Travelers are classified into three groups according to information contents which they received before departing or on trip. The first group have no traffic information, so they travel along with fixed route. The second group has real-time shortest path information from travel agency and takes the route. The last group has car navigation system or individual methods such as cell phone, PDA-two way communication for traffic information on trip. So they follow the control of DFS (decentralized feedback strategy) where the control system is operated locally. In order to consider these three groups in a model we propose a multi-class dynamic assignment model. With the proposed model some traffic information strategies are tested and interpreted in terms of ITS (Intelligent transport systems).
