A congestion bottleneck analysis model for tourist block street network

Abstract

The development of the tourism industry has led to increased pressure of people flow in tourist blocks. Therefore, it is critical to ease the traffic pressure in these blocks. This paper aims to identify the bottleneck links of street networks in tourist blocks to achieve the effective prevention of congestion accidents. A logit stochastic user equilibrium model combined with spatial syntax is presented to study the travelers’ route choice behavior. The nonlinear Bureau of Public Roads function is applied to calculate the time impedance of each street. A case analysis of the Chongqing Ciqikou tourist block shows that the bottleneck link has the features of high integration and a large degree of negative time impedance evolution. The research’s results are more consistent with practical circumstances because the influence of the road network topological structure on pedestrian path selection has been considered.