Article ID: | iaor2006903 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 39 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 39 |
End Page Number: | 57 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2005 |
Journal: | Transportation Science |
Authors: | Heydecker B.G., Addison J.D. |
Keywords: | networks |
We present and analyse a model of the combined choice of departure time and route in a congested road network. Using the property of equilibrium solutions that for each origin–destination pair the total cost associated with travel is identical for all travellers, we establish a general result that relates assignments to various components of cost. The analysis is developed to include time-varying tolls and to establish a formula that will induce any specified inflow profile as an equilibrium. We introduce an iteration operator to calculate equilibrium inflow profiles, and present the results of example calculations for a range of test problems.