A game theoretic framework for the robust railway transit network design problem

Gilbert Laporte, Juan A. Mesa and Federico Perea

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2010, vol. 44, issue 4, 447-459

Abstract: This paper proposes a game theoretic framework for the problem of designing an uncapacitated railway transit network in the presence of link failures and a competing mode. It is assumed that when a link fails, another path or another transportation mode is provided to transport passengers between the endpoints of the affected link. The goal is to build a network that optimizes a certain utility function when failures occur. The problem is posed as a non-cooperative two-player zero-sum game with perfect information. The saddle points of the corresponding mixed enlarged game yield robust network designs.

Keywords: Robust; network; design; Game; theory; Saddle; points; Nash; equilibrium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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