Travel time of public transport such as railway and Light Rail Transit (LRT) is more reliable than road traffic. When assessing the effect of railway transits, the reliability should be considered. Otherwise, the effect may be underestimated. Then, we should not only treat both transit and road users simultaneously and consistently, but also travel time uncertainty of cars and the reliability (or punctuality) of railway for exact evaluation. A network equilibrium model with combined mode and route choice considering road travel time uncertainty does not necessarily have a unique solution, but may have many local solutions, because of the interaction between modes. The simulated annealing is one of the useful techniques to such a problem, to the calculation of the network equilibrium model with combined mode and route choice. In this paper, we apply the network equilibrium model proposed to the Kanazawa urban area using the simulated annealing technique.
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