dc.contributor.author	Paramahamsan, Harinarayan	en
dc.contributor.committeechair	Van Aerde, Michael W.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Trani, Antonio A.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Rakha, Hesham A.	en
dc.contributor.department	Civil Engineering	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-14T20:31:32Z	en
dc.date.adate	1999-02-17	en
dc.date.available	2014-03-14T20:31:32Z	en
dc.date.issued	1999-01-22	en
dc.date.rdate	1999-02-17	en
dc.date.sdate	1999-02-05	en
dc.description.abstract	Origin-Destination (O-D) matrices are required in order to model traffic routing behavior in networks. Direct techniques for collecting O-D information from home and roadside interviews have historically been utilized to estimate O-D tables. However, these techniques are not only very costly, labor intensive, and disruptive to trip makers, but traditionally also do not capture traffic peaking behavior, which is often required for traffic operational purposes. Consequently, more cost-effective indirect or synthetic O-D estimation techniques have been developed, and continue to be developed. They utilize readily available traffic volume counts to estimate the most likely O-D tables that may have generated the observed link counts. This thesis describes the basic formulations that have been proposed to formulate and solve the static O-D problem synthetically using link flow observations based on Maximum Entropy techniques. As is the case with many mathematical solutions to engineering problems, a number of simplifying assumptions have been made in order to solve the synthetic O-D problem. Unfortunately, the descriptions of these simplifying assumptions are often not fully described in the literature, and in some cases, these assumptions are not mentioned at all. Furthermore, the literature fails to systematically demonstrate what impact these assumptions have on the final O-D table estimate. Therefore, this thesis utilizes simple hypothetical networks to; 1. Demonstrate and compare the two main types of synthetic O-D formulations, namely the trip and volume based formulations. 2. Track the O-D estimation procedure from its initial formulation to its final formulation, demonstrating all significant assumptions that have been made and the implications of these assumptions on the final solution. 3. Demonstrate to what extent the final O-D estimation formulation remains valid when these assumptions are invoked. 4. Test the applicability of some packages which implement the various formulations and solution techniques that are available.	en
dc.description.degree	Master of Science	en
dc.identifier.other	etd-020599-151231	en
dc.identifier.sourceurl	http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-020599-151231/	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31143	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.relation.haspart	Chapter3.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	Chapter2.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	Appendix.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	Chapter4.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	Chapter1.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	Chapter6.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	Etd.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	Reference.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	Chapter7.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	Chapter5.pdf	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject	Maximum Likelihood	en
dc.subject	Maximum Entropy	en
dc.subject	O-D	en
dc.subject	Synthetic	en
dc.title	Fundamental properties of Synthetic O-D Generation Formulations and Solutions	en
dc.type	Thesis	en
thesis.degree.discipline	Civil Engineering	en
thesis.degree.grantor	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	en
thesis.degree.level	masters	en
thesis.degree.name	Master of Science	en

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