Competitive multi-facility location games with non-identical firms and convex traffic congestion costs Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This paper studies a set of heterogenous competitive firms simultaneously locating facilities at a set of locations to serve a set of markets. Firms incur firm-specific transportation, congestion, and location costs, and market price is linear and decreasing in the amount shipped to the market by all firms. First, firms' market-supply decisions for given facility locations are characterized using a variational inequality formulation. Then, firms' location decisions are analyzed. A heuristic method is provided for finding equilibrium locations, and its computational efficiency is compared to a random search method. 2011 Elsevier Ltd.

published proceedings

  • TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART E-LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION REVIEW

author list (cited authors)

  • Konur, D., & Geunes, J.

citation count

  • 23

complete list of authors

  • Konur, Dinçer||Geunes, Joseph

publication date

  • January 2012