The Downs-Thomson Paradox: Existence, Uniqueness and Stability of User Equilibria |
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Authors: | Heti Afimeimounga Wiremu Solomon Ilze Ziedins |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand |
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Abstract: | Consider a network where two routes are available for users wishing to travel from a source to a destination. On one route (which could be viewed as private transport) service slows as traffic increases. On the other (which could be viewed as public transport) the service frequency increases with demand. The Downs-Thomson paradox occurs when improvements in service produce an overall decline in performance as user equilibria adjust. Using the model proposed by Calvert [10], with a ⋅|M|1 queue corresponding to the private transport route, and a bulk-service infinite server queue modelling the public transport route, we give a complete analysis of this system in the setting of probabilistic routing. We obtain the user equilibria (which are not always unique), and determine their stability.AMS subject classification: 60K30, 90B15, 90B20, 91A10, 91A13This revised version was published online in June 2005 with corrected coverdate |
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Keywords: | queueing networks routing Downs-Thomson paradox Wardrop equilibrium transportation networks |
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