Fifty years of the bottleneck model: A bibliometric review and future research directions

ZC Li, HJ Huang, H Yang - Transportation research part B: methodological, 2020 - Elsevier
The bottleneck model introduced by Vickrey in 1969 has been recognized as a benchmark
representation of the peak-period traffic congestion due to its ability to capture the essence …

Macroscopic network-level traffic models: Bridging fifty years of development toward the next era

M Johari, M Keyvan-Ekbatani, L Leclercq… - … Research Part C …, 2021 - Elsevier
Network macroscopic fundamental diagrams (NMFD) and related network-level traffic
dynamics models have received both theoretical support and empirical validation with the …

Generalized bathtub model of network trip flows

WL Jin - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Vickrey (1991, 2020) proposed a bathtub model for the evolution of trip flows served
by privately operated vehicles inside a road network based on three premises:(i) treatment …

The morning commute in urban areas with heterogeneous trip lengths

R Lamotte, N Geroliminis - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the equilibrium properties of the morning commute problem at the
network level with heterogeneous trip lengths. Congestion is modeled with a Macroscopic …

Departure time choice models in urban transportation systems based on mean field games

M Ameli, MSS Faradonbeh… - Transportation …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Departure time choice models play a crucial role in determining the traffic load in
transportation systems. Most studies that consider departure time user equilibrium (DTUE) …

[HTML][HTML] A bathtub model of transit congestion

LJ Lehe, A Pandey - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2024 - Elsevier
Studies of transit dwell times suggest that the delay caused by passengers boarding and
alighting rises with the number of passengers on each vehicle. This paper incorporates such …

Modeling the dynamics of congestion in large urban networks using the macroscopic fundamental diagram: User equilibrium, system optimum, and pricing strategies

M Amirgholy, HO Gao - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2017 - Elsevier
The macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) is introduced in recent studies to present the
relationship between the flow and the density of the network in large urban regions …

A dynamic user equilibrium model for multi-region macroscopic fundamental diagram systems with time-varying delays

YP Huang, JH Xiong, A Sumalee, N Zheng… - … Research Part B …, 2020 - Elsevier
Macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) has been widely used for aggregate modeling of
urban traffic network dynamics to tackle the dimensionality problem of microscopic …

Staggered work schedules for congestion mitigation: A morning commute problem

M Yildirimoglu, M Ramezani, M Amirgholy - Transportation Research Part …, 2021 - Elsevier
In urban networks, traffic congestion can be curbed by deconcentrating the temporal
distribution of the travel demand. In this paper, we propose an optimal staggered work …

Solving for equilibrium in the basic bathtub model

R Arnott, J Buli - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2018 - Elsevier
The basic (identical individuals) bathtub model has an unfamiliar mathematical structure,
with a delay differential equation with an endogenous delay at its core. The early papers on …