The Theory of Transit Assignment: Demand and Supply Phenomena

This chapter addresses the modelling of various demand and supply phenomena emerging on public transport networks: passenger information, congestion at stops and on board, service regularity. These phenomena affect route choice, either directly (information), or indirectly through travel costs (congestion); therefore they are to be made an integral part of transit assignment models, which shall then evolve from the basic frameworks presented in the previous Chapter 6. The aim is then that of providing travel times and, in case of strategy models, also the hyperarc diversion probabilities, for a given arc flow pattern.