On the Use of Abundant Road Speed Data for Travel Demand Calibration of Urban Traffic Simulators

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Main Authors: Vishnoi, Suyash, Shetty, Akhil, Tsogsuren, Iveel, Arora, Neha, Osorio, Carolina
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Published: 2024
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author Vishnoi, Suyash
Shetty, Akhil
Tsogsuren, Iveel
Arora, Neha
Osorio, Carolina
author_facet Vishnoi, Suyash
Shetty, Akhil
Tsogsuren, Iveel
Arora, Neha
Osorio, Carolina
contents This work develops a compute-efficient algorithm to tackle a fundamental problem in transportation: that of urban travel demand estimation. It focuses on the calibration of origin-destination travel demand input parameters for high-resolution traffic simulation models. It considers the use of abundant traffic road speed data. The travel demand calibration problem is formulated as a continuous, high-dimensional, simulation-based optimization (SO) problem with bound constraints. There is a lack of compute efficient algorithms to tackle this problem. We propose the use of an SO algorithm that relies on an efficient, analytical, differentiable, physics-based traffic model, known as a metamodel or surrogate model. We formulate a metamodel that enables the use of road speed data. Tests are performed on a Salt Lake City network. We study how the amount of data, as well as the congestion levels, impact both in-sample and out-of-sample performance. The proposed method outperforms the benchmark for both in-sample and out-of-sample performance by 84.4% and 72.2% in terms of speeds and counts, respectively. Most importantly, the proposed method yields the highest compute efficiency, identifying solutions with good performance within few simulation function evaluations (i.e., with small samples).
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spellingShingle On the Use of Abundant Road Speed Data for Travel Demand Calibration of Urban Traffic Simulators
Vishnoi, Suyash
Shetty, Akhil
Tsogsuren, Iveel
Arora, Neha
Osorio, Carolina
Multiagent Systems
This work develops a compute-efficient algorithm to tackle a fundamental problem in transportation: that of urban travel demand estimation. It focuses on the calibration of origin-destination travel demand input parameters for high-resolution traffic simulation models. It considers the use of abundant traffic road speed data. The travel demand calibration problem is formulated as a continuous, high-dimensional, simulation-based optimization (SO) problem with bound constraints. There is a lack of compute efficient algorithms to tackle this problem. We propose the use of an SO algorithm that relies on an efficient, analytical, differentiable, physics-based traffic model, known as a metamodel or surrogate model. We formulate a metamodel that enables the use of road speed data. Tests are performed on a Salt Lake City network. We study how the amount of data, as well as the congestion levels, impact both in-sample and out-of-sample performance. The proposed method outperforms the benchmark for both in-sample and out-of-sample performance by 84.4% and 72.2% in terms of speeds and counts, respectively. Most importantly, the proposed method yields the highest compute efficiency, identifying solutions with good performance within few simulation function evaluations (i.e., with small samples).
title On the Use of Abundant Road Speed Data for Travel Demand Calibration of Urban Traffic Simulators
topic Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14089