MICHEL GENDREAU AND PATRICE MARCOTTE As an academic, Michael Florian has always stood at the forefront of transportation research. This is reflected in the miscellaneous contributions that make the chapters of this book, which are related in some way or another to Michael's interests in both the theoretical and practical aspects of his field. These interests span the areas of Traffic Assignment, Network Equilibrium, Shortest Paths, Railroad problems, De­ mand models, Variational Inequalities, Intelligent Transportation Systems, etc. The contributions are briefly outlined below. BASSANINI, LA BELLA AND NASTASI determine a track pricing policy for railroad companies through the solution of a generalized Nash game. BEN-AKIVA, BIER­ LAIRE, KOUTSOPOULOS AND MISHALANI discuss simulation-based estimators of the interactions between supply and demand within a real-time transportation system. BOYCE, BALASUBRAMANIAM AND TIAN analyze the impact of marginal cost pricing on urban traffic in the Chicago region. BROTCORNE, DE WOLF, GENDREAU AND LABBE present a discrete model of dynamic traffic assignment where flow departure is endogenous and the First-In-First-Out condition is strictly enforced. CASCETTA AND IMP ROTA give a rigorous treatment of the problem of estimating travel demand from observed data, both in the static and dynamic cases. CRAINIC, DUFOUR, FLo­ RIAN AND LARIN show how to obtain path information that is consistent with the link information provided by a nonlinear multimodal model. ERLANDER derives the logit model from an efficiency principle rather than from the classical random utility approach.

Transportation and Network Analysis: Current Trends: Miscellanea in honor of Michael Florian (Applied Optimization) | Michel Gendreau (Editor), P. Marcotte (Editor) | Springer

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Allocation of railroad capacity under competition: a game theoretic approach to track time pricing
Chapter 2: Real Time Simulation of Traffic demand-supply interactions within Dynamite
Chapter 3: Implications of Marginal Cost Road Pricing for Urban Travel Choices and User Benefit
Chapter 4: A Dynamic User Equilibrium Model for Traffic Assignment in Urban Areas
Chapter 5: Estimation of travel demand using traffic counts and other data sources
Chapter 6: Path Recovery/Reconstruction and Applications in Nonlinear Multimodal Multicommodity Networks
Chapter 7: Linear-in-parameters logit model derived from the Efficiency Principle
Chapter 8: A Multi-Class Multi-Mode Variable Demand Network Equilibrium Model with Hierarchical Logit Structures
Chapter 9: A Toll Pricing Framework for Traffic Assignment Problems with Elastic Demand
Chapter 10: A Decision Support Methodology for Strategic Traffic Management
Chapter 11: Column Generation Method for Network Design
Chapter 12: Computing Fixed Points by Averaging
Chapter 13: Pollution Permits for Spatial Price Networks
Chapter 14: A new dual algorithm for shortest path reoptimization
Chapter 15: Biproportional Matrix Balancing with Upper Bounds