Modelling The Provision Of Transport With Planned Or Market-Determined Public transport Services

摘要

Implications of the difference between planned and market- determined public transport services for the modelling of the transport system and its use are examined. In the former case, the task for government seeking to optimise performance of the transport system has a standard bi-level form, but in the latter case, the ower- level problem in the bi-level formulation is to determine mutually consistent solutions to a pair of optimisation problems. The relevance of the mutually consistent solution in this context is contrasted with its sometimes misleading role in the context of optimisation of urban traffic signal control.