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Contributions to Game Theory and Management, 2015 Volume 8, Pages 223–230 (Mi cgtm268)

Cooperation in transportation game

Anna V. Melnik

St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Control Processes, Universitetskii pr. 35, St. Petersburg, 198504, Russia

Abstract: We consider a game-theoretic model of competition and cooperation of transport companies on a graph. First, a non-cooperative $n$-person game which is related to the queueing system $M/M/n$ is considered. There are $n$ competing transport companies which serve the stream of passengers with exponential distribution of time with parameters $\mu^{(i)}$, $i=1, 2,\dots,n$ respectively on the graph of routes. The stream of passengers from a stop $k$ to another stop $t$ forms the Poisson process with intensity $\lambda_{kt}$. The transport companies announce the prices for the service on each route and the passengers choose the service with minimal costs. The incoming stream $\lambda_{kt}$ is divided into $n$ Poisson flows with intensities $\lambda_{kt}^{(i)}$, $i=1, 2,\dots,n$. The problem of pricing for each player in the competition and cooperation is solved.

Keywords: Duopoly, equilibrium prices, queueing system.

Language: English



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