Continuity, Uniqueness and Long-Term Behavior of Nash Flows Over Time
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| author | Olver, Neil Sering, Leon Koch, Laura Vargas |
| author_facet | Olver, Neil Sering, Leon Koch, Laura Vargas |
| contents | We consider a dynamic model of traffic that has received a lot of attention in the past few years. Users control infinitesimal flow particles aiming to travel from an origin to a destination as quickly as possible. Flow patterns vary over time, and congestion effects are modeled via queues, which form whenever the inflow into a link exceeds its capacity. Despite lots of interest, some very basic questions remain open in this model. We resolve a number of them in the single-commodity setting:
- We show uniqueness of journey times in equilibria.
- We show continuity of equilibria: small perturbations to the instance or to the traffic situation at some moment cannot lead to wildly different equilibrium evolutions.
- We demonstrate that, assuming constant inflow into the network at the source, equilibria always settle down into a "steady state" in which the behavior extends forever in a linear fashion.
One of our main conceptual contributions is to show that the answer to the first two questions, on uniqueness and continuity, are intimately connected to the third. To resolve the third question, we substantially extend the approach of Cominetti et al., who show a steady-state result in the regime where the input flow rate is smaller than the network capacity. |
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| spellingShingle | Continuity, Uniqueness and Long-Term Behavior of Nash Flows Over Time Olver, Neil Sering, Leon Koch, Laura Vargas Computer Science and Game Theory Optimization and Control We consider a dynamic model of traffic that has received a lot of attention in the past few years. Users control infinitesimal flow particles aiming to travel from an origin to a destination as quickly as possible. Flow patterns vary over time, and congestion effects are modeled via queues, which form whenever the inflow into a link exceeds its capacity. Despite lots of interest, some very basic questions remain open in this model. We resolve a number of them in the single-commodity setting: - We show uniqueness of journey times in equilibria. - We show continuity of equilibria: small perturbations to the instance or to the traffic situation at some moment cannot lead to wildly different equilibrium evolutions. - We demonstrate that, assuming constant inflow into the network at the source, equilibria always settle down into a "steady state" in which the behavior extends forever in a linear fashion. One of our main conceptual contributions is to show that the answer to the first two questions, on uniqueness and continuity, are intimately connected to the third. To resolve the third question, we substantially extend the approach of Cominetti et al., who show a steady-state result in the regime where the input flow rate is smaller than the network capacity. |
| title | Continuity, Uniqueness and Long-Term Behavior of Nash Flows Over Time |
| topic | Computer Science and Game Theory Optimization and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06877 |