Formulation, existence, and computation of simultaneous route-and-departure choice bounded rationality dynamic user equilibrium with fixed or endogenous user tolerance

Abstract

This paper analyzes the continuous-time simultaneous route-and-departure choice (SRDC) dynamic user equilibrium (DUE) that incorporates boundedness of user rationality. As such, the bounded rationality dynamic user equilibrium (BR-DUE) model assumes that travelers do not always seek the least costly route-and-departure-time choice. Rather, their perception of travel cost is affected by an indifference band which describes travelers' tolerance towards the difference between their experienced travel costs and the minimum travel cost. We further extend our subject of investigation to include a variable tolerance (VT) BR-DUE with endogenously determined tolerances that may depend not only on a particular path, but also on the established path flows (path departure rates). The VT-BR- DUE model captures more realistic driving behaviors that stem from path heterogeneity, and drivers' observations of prevailing traffic conditions. For the first time in the literature, the continuous-time VT-BR-DUE problem, together with the BR-DUE problem as a special case, is formulated as an infinite dimensional variational inequality, a differential variational inequality, and a fixed point problem. Existence results for VT-BR-DUE and BR-DUE are provided based on assumptions weaker than those made for SRDC DUEs. Moreover, we propose, based on the fixed point formulation, a fixed-point iterative algorithm that computes VT-BR-DUE and BR-DUE in continuous time, which is then tested on several networks in terms of solution characteristics, convergence, and computational time.

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