Route Choice Strategy in Traffic Network and Routing Strategy in Communication Network

Traffic networks and communication networks, the two integral parts of urban infrastructure, have many common characteristics. For example, they both are carriers for transporting agents, as traffic network is a carrier for running vehicles and communication network for transmitting the information packages. Besides, in both networks, the transportation efficiency and congestion problems are crucial issues. In traffic network, the running efficiency of vehicles in city road and traffic jam have attracted heavy research interests from scientists, and in communication network, scientists also focus on the efficiency of transmitted information package and its congestion. In addition, the agents carried by these two networks run with some strategy. In intelligent transportation systems, vehicles move along the path from origin to destination according to rout guidance information, which is produced by the route choice strategy, and information packages in communication are transmitted based on a routing strategy.