EFFICIENT METHOD FOR COMPUTING TRAFFIC EQUILIBRIA IN NETWORKS WITH ASYMMETRIC TRANSPORTATION COSTS
In the presence of several user categories or transportation modes, or when transportation costs on each arc of a network depend on the flows on adjacent arcs, the traffic equilibrium problem may be expressed as a variational problem. Methods for determining traffic equilibria are then adaptations of techniques for solving variational inequalities. In this paper, a new convex optimization formulation for the general traffic equilibrium problem is presented, and a simple iterative method is proposed for calculating traffic equilibria, which essentially involves postoptimizing a linear subproblem at each iteration. Preliminary computational results are reported.
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Operations Research Society of America
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Authors:
- Nguyen, S
- Dupuis, C
- Publication Date: 1984-5
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 185-202
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Serial:
- Transportation Science
- Volume: 18
- Issue Number: 2
- Publisher: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
- ISSN: 0041-1655
- Serial URL: http://transci.journal.informs.org/
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Calculation; Costs; Economics; Mathematical models; Traffic control; Traffic equilibrium; Transportation
- Uncontrolled Terms: Computation; Models
- Subject Areas: Economics; Operations and Traffic Management; Transportation (General); I71: Traffic Theory;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00389620
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Engineering Index
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Nov 30 1984 12:00AM