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Title:

Multiagent Congestion and Pricing Model

Accession Number:

01025377

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

A multi-agent model of travelers competing to utilize a roadway in time and space is presented in this paper in order to illustrate the effect of congestion and pricing on traveler behavior and network equilibrium. To realize the spillover effect among travelers, N-player games are constructed in which the strategy set include (N+1) strategies. The paper also solves the N-player game (for N?7) and finds Nash equilibriums if they exist. This model is compared to the bottleneck model. The results of numerical simulation show that the two models yield identical results in terms of lowest total costs and marginal costs when a social optimum exists.

Monograph Accession #:

01020180

Report/Paper Numbers:

06-0539

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Zou, Xi
Levinson, David Matthew

Pagination:

27p

Publication Date:

2006

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2006-1-22 to 2006-1-26
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

CD-ROM

Features:

Figures (4) ; References (19) ; Tables (5)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Spillover

Subject Areas:

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2006 Paper #06-0539

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Mar 3 2006 10:23AM