 A new look at departure time choice equilibrium models with heterogeneous usersTakashi Akamatsu, Kentaro Wada, Takamasa Iryo and Shunsuke Hayashi Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2021, vol. 148, issue C, 152-182 Abstract: This paper presents a systematic approach for analyzing the departure-time choice equilibrium (DTCE) problem of a single bottleneck with heterogeneous commuters. The approach is based on the fact that the DTCE is equivalently represented as a linear programming problem with a special structure, which can be analytically solved by exploiting the theory of optimal transport combined with a decomposition technique. By applying the proposed approach to several types of models with heterogeneous commuters, it is shown that (i) the essential condition for emerging equilibrium “sorting patterns,” which have been known in the literature, is that the schedule delay functions have the “Monge property,” (ii) the equilibrium problems with the Monge property can be solved analytically, and (iii) the proposed approach can be applied to a more general problem with more than two types of heterogeneities. Keywords: Departure time choice equilibrium; Linear programming; Optimal transport; Sorting (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:transb:v:148:y:2021:i:c:p:152-182 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2021.04.003 Access Statistics for this article Transportation Research Part B: Methodological is currently edited by Fred Mannering More articles in Transportation Research Part B: Methodological from Elsevier |
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