Transportation Network Model regarding Connecter Costs as Random Valuables and its Applications to the Railway Route and Station Choice Model

Abstract

Present traffic network model require that all possible origins and destinations of trips be represented as if they were taking place to and from a small set of points or centroids. This misrepresents the access cost from trip-ends to the networks, especially the cost from home to train stations. In order to alleviate this spatial aggregation problem, we suggest a new network model which regarding connecter cost as random valuables. We applied this model to the railway networks in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, and confirmed its applicability