Article ID: | iaor20083179 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 624 |
End Page Number: | 646 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2007 |
Journal: | Transportation Research. Part E, Logistics and Transportation Review |
Authors: | Nagurney Anna, Liu Zugang, Cojocaru Monica-Gabriela, Daniele Patrizia |
Keywords: | networks, supply & supply chains |
In this paper, we develop a static electric power supply chain network equilibrium model with known demands and establish the equivalence between the model and a transportation network equilibrium model with fixed demands over an appropriately constructed supernetwork. This equivalence yields a new interpretation of electric power supply chain network equilibria in path flows. We then exploit this equivalence to propose a dynamic electric power supply chain network model in which the demand varies over time using an evolutionary variational inequality formulation. Finally, we demonstrate how numerical dynamic electric power supply chain network problems can be solved utilizing recently obtained theoretical results in the unification of evolutionary variational inequalities and projected dynamical systems.