Competitive multi-facility location games with non-identical firms and convex traffic congestion costs

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.

authors

• Geunes, Joseph

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

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review  Journal

keywords

• Competitive Facility Location Problem
• Traffic Congestion

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.tre.2011.06.005

start page

• 373

end page

• 385

volume

• 48

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2011.06.005