A Common Modeling Framework for Dynamic Traffic Assignment and Supply Chain Management Systems with Congestion Phenomena

Abstract

This paper seeks to illustrate the ability of the graph theoretic cell transmission model (GT-CTM), previously developed by the authors, to address some dynamic supply chain management (SCM) problems with congestion phenomena using a simple graphical representation. It further shows the conceptual equivalence between SCM and dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) problems using the GT-CTM framework. Thereby, the GT-CTM provides a generalized modeling framework to address dynamic network problems with congestion phenomena.