SIMULATION TRANSPORT NETWORK

A simulation paper that creates a set of random variables and determines, in an transportation network ,if the dependent links will provide efficient roads from one point to another based on the random possibility of failure. The purpose of this study was to analyze a transportation network in earthquake conditions. Using a network with six nodes where roads can merge and split, the assumption was that if one road failed, the network could reroute from one node to another to ensure transportation was still possible from City A to city B. By generating random variables as probabilities of failure due to an earthquake, the problem was to determine the possibilities of road use from one city to another even after a road was damaged. The results were that there was an average number of two paths available from city A to B, with a low variance on the results.