Article ID: | iaor20013461 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 34 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 402 |
End Page Number: | 414 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2000 |
Journal: | Transportation Science |
Authors: | Marcotte Patrice, Zhu Daoli |
This paper is concerned with the existence of solutions to a dynamic network equilibrium problem modeled as an infinite dimensional variational inequality. Our results are based on properties of operators that map path flow departure rates to consistent time-dependent path flows and other link performance functions. The existence result requires the introduction of a novel concept that strengthens the familiar concept of First-In-First-Out.