Frascaria, D., Olver, N. and Verhoef, E. (2020). Emergent hypercongestion in Vickrey bottleneck networks Transportation Research. Part B, Methodological, 139:523--538.
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Publication year2020
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JournalTransportation Research. Part B, Methodological
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.