Article ID: | iaor20073370 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 52 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 191 |
End Page Number: | 212 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2004 |
Journal: | Operations Research |
Authors: | Nguyen Sang, Marcotte Patrice, Schoeb Alexandre |
Keywords: | networks: flow |
This work pleads for the use of the concept of strategies, and their network-theoretic representation as hyperpaths, for modeling network assignment problems. While this concept describes adequately the behavior of users in transit systems, we show that it can apply as well to networks where arc capacities are rigid. This opens up a whole new field of research and raises several questions, from both the theoretical and computational points of view. These are investigated in the paper.