Uniqueness of user equilibrium in transportation networks with heterogeneous commuters

Transportation Science

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 315-330

  Konishi, Hideo ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottleneck model; Efficiency; Game theory; Heterogeneous users; Traffic equilibrium; Uniqueness

Indexed keywords

GAME THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; RANDOM PROCESSES; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

BOTTLENECK MODEL; HETEROGENOUS USERS; TRAFFIC EQUILIBRIUM;

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 4544379279     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1030.0047     Document Type: Article

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