research report

Development of a path flow estimator for inferring steady-state and time-dependent origin-destination trip matrices

Publication Date

June 1, 2008

Author(s)

Michael Zhang, Marco Nie, Shizhe Shen, Ming-Sheng Lee, Sarawut Jansuwan, Piya Chootinan, Surachet Pravinvongvuth, Anthony Chen, Will Recker

Abstract

This report describes how a previously proposed logit path flow estimator (LPFE) has been further developed in order to improve the reliability and efficiency of origin-destination (O-D) trip table estimates. The report describes how both steady-state and time-dependent LPFE are implemented in an object-oriented programming (OOP) framework. The performance of the LPFE is tested using synthetic data and the accuracy and reliability of its O-D trip table estimates are quantified. The report also describes the development of Visual PFE and Visual PFE-TD, which are the graphic user interfaces (GUI) for both static and time-dependent LPFE.

Suggested Citation
Michael Zhang, Yu Nie, Wei Shen, Ming S. Lee, Sarawut Jansuwan, Piya Chootinan, Surachet Pravinvongvuth, Anthony Chen and Wilfred W. Recker (2008) Development of a path flow estimator for inferring steady-state and time-dependent origin-destination trip matrices. University of California, Berkeley / California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways, p. 119p.