Emergent Hypercongestion in Vickrey Bottleneck Networks

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 behaviour on a network, even if the underlying link dynamics (we consider Vickrey bottlenecks with spaceless vertical queues) do not exhibit hypercongestion

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Year of publication:	2020
Authors:	Frascaria, Dario ; Olver, Neil ; Verhoef, Erik T.
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Engpass \| Bottleneck \| Theorie \| Theory \| Verkehrsstau \| Traffic congestion \| Unternehmensnetzwerk \| Business network \| Netzwerk \| Network \| Soziales Netzwerk \| Social network \| Stadtverkehr \| Urban transport