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Microsimulation Framework for Urban Price-Taker Markets

Farooq, Bilal  
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Miller, Eric
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Chingcuanco, Franco
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2013
Journal of Transport and Land Use

In the context of integrated transportation and other urban engineering infrastructure systems, there are many examples of markets, where consumers exhibit price-taking behaviour. While this behaviour is ubiquitous, the underlying mechanism can be captured in a single framework. Here, we present a microsimulation framework of a price-taker market that recognizes this generality and develop efficient algorithms for the associated market clearing problem. By abstracting the problem as a specific graph theoretic problem (i.e. maximum weighted bipartite graph), first we are able to exploit algorithms that are developed in graph theory. We then explore their appropriateness in terms of large-scale integrated urban microsimulations. Based on which, we further develop a generic and efficient clearing algorithm that takes advantage of the features specific to urban price-taker markets. This clearing solution is then used to operationalize two price-taker markets, from two different contexts, within a microsimulation of urban systems. The initial validation of results against the observed data generally shows a close match.

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DOI
10.5198/jtlu.v6i1.325
Author(s)
Farooq, Bilal  
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Miller, Eric
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Chingcuanco, Franco
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Giroux-Cook, Martin
Date Issued

2013

Published in
Journal of Transport and Land Use
Volume

6

Issue

1

Start page

41

End page

51

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January 20, 2014
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/99613
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