Bus drivers in competition: A directed location approach

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2022

Subject Area

mode - bus, ridership - drivers, ridership - behaviour, planning - safety/accidents, economics - fare revenue

Keywords

Transport, Bus, Location games, Nash equilibrium, Mixed Strategies

Abstract

We present a directed variant of Salop’s (1979) model to analyze bus transport dynamics. Players are drivers competing in both cooperative and non-cooperative games. Utility is proportional to the total fare collection. Competition for picking up passengers leads to well documented and dangerous driving practices that cause road accidents, traffic congestion and pollution. We obtain theoretical results that support the existence and implementation of such practices, and give a qualitative description of how they come to occur. In addition, our results allow to compare the current competitive system with a more cooperative one.

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Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.

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