Integration of optimal control and knowledge-based techniques for dynamic traffic routing

Describes a new approach to dynamic traffic routing in response to incidents, based on the integration of a real-time user equilibrium (UE) assignment algorithm and a control-based routing algorithm, for hybrid motorway and arterial networks. Initial simulation results demonstrate the ability of the approach to determine a quasi-UE traffic distribution among two alternative routes to a given destination. Additional tests are required to correctly assess the algorithm´s effectiveness, prior to its implementation. Several issues have yet to be analysed