Stochastic User Equilibrium Traffic Model Assignment Based on Travel Time Budget

This paper first analyzes link and route travel time distribution in a degradable road network by assuming a uniform distribution on the capacity of each link. It is postulated that travelers, by acquiring route travel time variability form past experiences, make route decisions based on a travel time budget, which is a summation of the mean route travel time and the safety margin of the travel time. This paper then formulates a novel travel time budget-based stochastic user equilibrium traffic assignment model with multiple user classes and elastic demand as a variational inequality problem. Finally, a numerical example of a small road network is presented to illustrate the properties of the proposed model.