Research Article

Optimal Reservation Volume of Urban Roads Based on Travel Reservation Strategy

Table 1

Description of parameters and variables.

NotationsDescription

The transportation network, where represents the set of nodes and represents the set of links
A directed road link,
Set of reservation road links,
Set of common road links,
Set of O-D pairs
An O-D pair,
Set of paths from origin to destination
A path from origin to destination,
Traffic flow on the link
Optimal reservation volume
The admissible state of the request of the vehicle to enter the link
O-D pair demand multiplier
The original travel demand for O-D pair
The reservation tendency
The traffic flow on the path on the OD pair
The path-link relation: if the link a is on the path r between O-D pair , then ; otherwise,
The reservation section-path relation: if there is no reservation section on the path r between O-D pair , then ; otherwise,
The travel cost function of link
The free flow time of link
The capacity of the link