A Transit Network Assignment Model Based on Congestion and Preference

This paper develops a new formulation for the problem of transit network assignment based on the congestion and preference. The multiple user groups are used to represent the travel preferences for the in-vehicle time, the waiting time and the number of transfers as traveling on the networks. A user equilibrium transit assignment model based on the fixed point problem is formulated in this paper. Then, a heuristic solution algorithm applied to the method of successive averages is also proposed. A numerical example is finally used to illustrate the approach built in this paper.