Car ownership level for a sustainability urban environment

  • Zhongzhen Yang*
  • , Gang Chen
  • , Bin Yu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This study forecasts the maximum car ownership in a city that is consistent with environmental sustainability. A bi-level optimization model is used, where upper-level establishes car ownership consistent with the maximum environmental load on the road network, while the lower level assigns traffic demand across the network. Modal split and traffic environmental load models are used to connect the two levels. An algorithm, embracing sensitivity analysis (an acquiring derivative function of link flow and traffic demand with respect to zonal car ownership) is developed. To estimate the traffic environmental load accurately, an artificial neural network model is used to calculate the pollutants concentrations along the roads.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)10-18
Number of pages9
JournalTransportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
Volume13
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2008
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Artificial neural networks
  • Bi-level programming
  • Car ownership
  • Environment capacity
  • Traffic environmental loads

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