Fundamentals of Transportation/Route Choice/Additional Problems

Additional Questions

 * 1) How does average cost differ from marginal cost?
 * 2) How do System Optimal and  User Equilibrium travel time differ?
 * 3) Why do we want people to behave in an SO way?
 * 4) How can you get people to behave in an SO way?
 * 5) Who was John Glen Wardrop?
 * 6) What are Wardrop’s Two Principles?
 * 7) What does conservation of flow require in route assignment?
 * 8) Can Variable Message Signs be used to encourage System Optimal behavior?
 * 9) What is freeflow travel time?
 * 10) If a problem has more than two routes, where does the extra equation come from?
 * 11) How can you determine if a route is unused?
 * 12) What is the difference between capacity and flow
 * 13) Draw a typical volume-delay function for a deterministic, static user equilibrium assignment.
 * 14) Can Q be negative?
 * 15) What is route assignment?
 * 16) Is it important that the output travel times from route choice be consistent with the input travel times for destination choice and mode choice? Why?

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