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Network assignment involves distributing travel volumes between transportation network links based on travel time. It aims to determine the minimum time path for trips through the network. A link connects two nodes, a path is a series of links without repeating any, and a tree is a collection of links. Running an assignment requires coding the network, locating zones and their centroids, designating access links, and travel time data. Assignment can be done for entire days or peak hours, and by travel purpose or mode. Common assignment methods include all-or-nothing, which assigns all trips to the fastest route, diversion, which distributes trips between the fastest and next fastest routes, and proportional, which distributes trips among multiple alternative routes based on their travel

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Network Assignment Text

Network assignment involves distributing travel volumes between transportation network links based on travel time. It aims to determine the minimum time path for trips through the network. A link connects two nodes, a path is a series of links without repeating any, and a tree is a collection of links. Running an assignment requires coding the network, locating zones and their centroids, designating access links, and travel time data. Assignment can be done for entire days or peak hours, and by travel purpose or mode. Common assignment methods include all-or-nothing, which assigns all trips to the fastest route, diversion, which distributes trips between the fastest and next fastest routes, and proportional, which distributes trips among multiple alternative routes based on their travel

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NETWORK ASSIGNMENT

Network assignment constitutes the final stage in the trip forecasting process. This stage involves the
assignment of the distributed volumes of trips, by mode, to individual network links. It is based on an
attempt to determine a minimum time-path through a network, on the basis of which travel volumes
are assigned to the network.

Definitions of network analysis:

 A link is defined as a connection between two adjacent nodes.


 A path constitutes a series of adjacent links that can be traversed without covering any one
link more than once.
 A tree is defined as a collection of links.

The basic data requirements for running an assignment process would include coding of the network,
locating and numbering of centroids of zones, designation of access links and information on travel
times.

Assignment can be carried out either on 24-hour or peak hour interzonal trips. Assignment by
purpose or mode of travel is also possible.

There are several assignment methods:

All-or-nothing assignment: Basically an all-or-nothing assignment assigns all traffic to a minimum


time path. In order to make this process somewhat more realistic, various modifications can be
made. In the first instance, the assignment may be reiterated with a capacity-restraint equation that
will change the travel times on each link in relation to traffic assigned to the link. (That is because
when all users choose the minimum time path, its capacity will be exceeded and it will be congested
and no more be the minimum time path, so iterations made can take this into account.)

Eg: T = To [1 + 0.15 (V/C)4]

On the basis of a series of iterations an assignment can be obtained that is responsive to the capacity
limitations of the network.

As opposed to all-or-nothing assignment, diversion and proportional assignments assign traffic to


more than one route between two points.

In diversion assignment, the minimum and the next shortest time paths through the network are
determined for every zone pair and assignment proceeds on the basis of a diversion curve that gives
the percentage of traffic on the longer route as a function of the difference or ratio of travel times of
the two available routes.

Proportional assignment comprises a further extension of the diversion assignment to a multiple set
of routes. It assigns proportions of traffic among a number of alternative routes, as a function of the
time differences or time ratios between those alternatives. So it becomes necessary to work out not
only a minimum time path, but a large number of additional paths. This can be extremely time
consuming and complex in terms of building programmes.

(For diagrams and exercises, please see the hand-written documents.)

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