Highlights Hypercongestion Vickrey bottlenecks with spaceless vertical queues Arbitrary networks Homogeneous users Optimal (first-best) pricing
Abstract Hypercongestion—the phenomenon that higher traffic densities can reduce throughput—is well understood at the link level, but has also been observed in a macroscopic form at the level of traffic networks; for instance, in morning rush-hour traffic into a downtown core. In this paper, we show that macroscopic hypercongestion can occur as a purely emergent effect of dynamic equilibrium behavior on a network, even if the underlying link dynamics (we consider Vickrey bottlenecks with spaceless vertical queues) do not exhibit hypercongestion.
Emergent hypercongestion in Vickrey bottleneck networks
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological ; 139 ; 523-538
2020-07-29
16 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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