IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/inm/ortrsc/v20y1986i4p287-289.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

On a Paper by Andre de Palma, Moshe Ben-Akiva, Claude Lefèvre, and Nicolaos Litinas Entitled “Stochastic Equilibrium Model of Peak Period Traffic Congestion”

Author

Listed:
  • Vanolin F. Hurdle

    (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)

Abstract

A paper published in 1983 in this journal by A. de Palma et al. uses a deterministic queueing supply model in combination with a random utility demand model to predict the pattern of traffic flows during a peak period. Two different versions of the supply model are included, a “basic model” which is identical to the supply model used by a number of other authors investigating the same general problem (e.g., M. J. Smith [Smith, M. J. 1984. The existence of a time-dependent equilibrium distribution of arrivals at a single bottleneck. Trans. Sci. 18 385--394.]), and a more complicated “extended model.” As detailed below, there is a mathematical discrepancy in the analysis. Because of this discrepancy, some of the conclusions about the traffic flow pattern in the case of the extended model are incorrect and all are unproven. For the simpler---and seemingly more realistic---basic model, the discrepancy vanishes and the conclusions remain valid.

Suggested Citation

  • Vanolin F. Hurdle, 1986. "On a Paper by Andre de Palma, Moshe Ben-Akiva, Claude Lefèvre, and Nicolaos Litinas Entitled “Stochastic Equilibrium Model of Peak Period Traffic Congestion”," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 20(4), pages 287-289, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:20:y:1986:i:4:p:287-289
    DOI: 10.1287/trsc.20.4.287
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/trsc.20.4.287
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1287/trsc.20.4.287?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. B. G. Heydecker & J. D. Addison, 2005. "Analysis of Dynamic Traffic Equilibrium with Departure Time Choice," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 39(1), pages 39-57, February.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:20:y:1986:i:4:p:287-289. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Asher (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/inforea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.