Title :
On the existence of competitions among information service providers and toll road operators
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Civil, Struct., & Environ. Eng., Trinity Coll., Dublin
Abstract :
This paper investigates whether there are strategic interactions among private advanced traveller information service providers (ISP) and private toll road operators (TO), whose objectives are profit-driven. For this purpose, a multi-class stochastic user equilibrium assignment model capturing the elastic market penetration of traveller information services is developed through the nonlinear complementarity problem approach, and a numerical study is set up. The result indicates that TO and ISP can have strong interactions and be competitive in nature
Keywords :
roads; stochastic processes; transportation; multiclass stochastic user equilibrium assignment; nonlinear complementarity problem; toll road operators; traveller information service providers; Business process re-engineering; Cost function; Equations; Intelligent transportation systems; Road transportation; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, 2006. ITSC '06. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Toronto, Ont.
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0093-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0094-5
DOI :
10.1109/ITSC.2006.1706856
