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The paper reports laboratory experiments on a day-to-day route choice game with two routes. Subjects had to choose between a main road M and a side road S. The capacity was greater for the main road. 18 subjects participated in each session. In equilibrium the number of subjects is 12 on M and 6 on S.
Two treatments with 6 sessions each were run at the computerized Laboratory of Experimental Economics at Bonn University. Feedback was given in treatment I only about own travel time and in treatment II on travel time for M and S. Money payoffs increase with decreasing time. The main results are as follows: Though mean numbers on M and S are very near to the equilibrium, the fluctuations persist until the end of the sessions in both treatments. Fluctuations and the total number of changes are significantly smaller under treatment II. Subjects’ road changes and payoffs are negatively correlated in all sessions.
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Selten, R., Schreckenberg, M., Pitz, T., Chmura, T., Wahle, J. (2003). Experiments on Route Choice Behaviour. In: Emmerich, H., Nestler, B., Schreckenberg, M. (eds) Interface and Transport Dynamics. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07969-0_30
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