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On the local and global stability of a travel route choice adjustment process
Transportation Research B (1996)
  • Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • Ding Zhang
Abstract

This paper presents a stability analysis for the dynamic model of a travel route choice adjustment process proposed by Dupuis and Nagurney (1993). In particular, we investigate both local and global stability issues for this adjustment process that may be of concern to transportation planners and analysts. Two distinct approaches for stability analysis are proposed based on the general stability analysis results obtained recently by Zhang and Nagurney (1995) for projected dynamical systems. The global stability results are established using a “monotonicity” approach, under monotonicity assumptions on the link cost and travel disutility functions. A distinct approach, termed a “regularity” approach, is then provided to verify the local stability of the adjustment process at a regular equilibrium flow pattern

Publication Date
August, 1996
Citation Information
Anna Nagurney and Ding Zhang. "On the local and global stability of a travel route choice adjustment process" Transportation Research B Vol. 30 Iss. 4 (1996)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/anna_nagurney/101/