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Transportation Research, 36B, 617 - 635. Clegg J and Smith M J (1998) Bilevel optimisation of transportation networks, in Mathematics in Transport Planning and Control, the Proceedings of the Third International IMA Conference on Mathematics in Transport Planning and Control, Pergamon, 29 - 36. Clegg J, M J Smith, Y Xiang and R Yarrow (2001) Bilevel programming applied to optimising urban transportation. Transportation Research, B, 35, 41-70. Clegg J and Smith M J (2001) Cone projection versus half-space projection for the bilevel optimisation of transportation networks.

Let rf'4'1' (or v'*'1') be the demand or flow used to estimate toll x'*"1' at iteration k -1 and d{k~l) be the observed flow after imposing t"" 1 '. The new intended traffic flow and new trial toll for the next iteration k are determined by: rfw=^-1)+a(t-1)(rf for the method of successive averages. Figure 1. 489. 933 calculated by (21), the results by the three methods are discussed below. Figure 2. Convergence pattern of the sequential linear demand function approximation in Example 1 36 Transportation and Traffic Theory: Flow, Dynamics and Human Interaction As already mentioned, the bisection method does converge for the simple single road case considered here, and is hence applied here for a comparison.

It is easy to check that the whole new cost function C is monotone if the original C and the original -D are both monotone. Thus we may add a price vector as previously and utilise the same simultaneous descent algorithm to optimise this equilibrium model. Equilibrium model 2: extra route when the inverse demand function is unknown The set of "flows" in this model is the set of all (Xo, X, Y) such that (Xo, X) e {(Xo, X); Er Xijr = Ty for all ij and Xijr > 0 for all ijr} where in the sum here r runs over 0, 1, 2, 3 , .

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