A measure of the importance of roads based on topography and traffic intensity

TL;DR

This paper develops a mathematical measure to evaluate the importance of road segments in a street network, considering topography and traffic intensity, using cooperative game theory and reliability models.

Contribution

It introduces a novel importance measure for road segments that integrates topography and traffic data within a cooperative game and reliability framework.

Findings

The measure effectively ranks road segments by importance.

It highlights critical roads for system accessibility.

The approach combines topography and traffic data for better assessment.

Abstract

Mathematical models of street traffic allowing assessment of the importance of their individual segments for the functionality of the street system is considering. Based on methods of cooperative games and the reliability theory the suitable measure is constructed. The main goal is to analyze methods for assessing the importance (rank) of road fragments, including their functions. A relevance of these elements for effective accessibility for the entire system will be considered.