Reserve Capacity of Mixed Urban Road Networks, Network Configuration and Signal Settings

Literature Review

Farahani et.al. (2013), a review of the definitions, classifications, objectives, constraints, decision variables and solution methods of the urban transportation network design problem are provided. This review shows that most studies on NDP are about CNDP. Most studies on CNDP lead to the development of algorithms and most problem definitions are similar (Abdulaal and LeBlanc, (1979); Marcotte, (1983); Davis, (1994); Ziyou and Yifan, (2002); Chiou, (2005); Gao, et. al. (2007); Chiou, (2008); Xu et. al. (2009)). Studies on DNDP are more limited, in comparison with CNDP because of the discrete variables. Researchers have mostly used heuristic and meta-heuristic algorithms to solve DNDP (Lee and Yang, (1994); Drezner and Salhi, (2002); Drezner and Wesolowsky (2003); Zhang and Gao, (2007); Poorzahedy and Rouhani, (2007); Wu et.al. (2009); Wang and Lo (2010)). Work on MNDP has been scarce in the past decade; the studies are summarized in Table 1.