Fundamentals of Transportation/Route Choice/Additional Problems
Additional Questions
- How does average cost differ from marginal cost?
 - How do System Optimal and User Equilibrium travel time differ?
 - Why do we want people to behave in an SO way?
 - How can you get people to behave in an SO way?
 - Who was John Glen Wardrop?
 - What are Wardrop’s Two Principles?
 - What does conservation of flow require in route assignment?
 - Can Variable Message Signs be used to encourage System Optimal behavior?
 - What is freeflow travel time?
 - If a problem has more than two routes, where does the extra equation come from?
 - How can you determine if a route is unused?
 - What is the difference between capacity and flow
 - Draw a typical volume-delay function for a deterministic, static user equilibrium assignment.
 - Can Q be negative?
 - What is route assignment?
 - 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?