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Patrick Loiseau, Galina A. Schwartz, John Musacchio, Saurabh Amin, Shankar Sastry. "Congestion Pricing Using a Raffle-Based Scheme". Network Games, Control and Optimization (NetGCooP), 5th International Conference, IEEE, 1-8, 12, October, 2011.

Abstract
We propose a raffle-based scheme for the decongestion of a shared resource. Our scheme builds on ideas from the economic literature on incentivizing contributions to a public good. We formulate a game-theoretic model for the decongestion problem in a setup with a finite number of users, as well as in a setup with an infinite number of non-atomic users. We analyze both setups, and show that the former converges toward the latter when the number of users becomes large. We compare our results to existing results for the public good provision problem. Overall, our results establish that raffle-based schemes are useful in addressing congestion problems.

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  Patrick Loiseau, Galina A. Schwartz, John Musacchio, Saurabh
  Amin, Shankar Sastry. <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/823.html"
  >Congestion Pricing Using a Raffle-Based
  Scheme</a>, Network Games, Control and Optimization
  (NetGCooP), 5th International Conference, IEEE, 1-8, 12,
  October, 2011.

• Plain text

  Patrick Loiseau, Galina A. Schwartz, John Musacchio, Saurabh
  Amin, Shankar Sastry. "Congestion Pricing Using a
  Raffle-Based Scheme". Network Games, Control and
  Optimization (NetGCooP), 5th International Conference, IEEE,
  1-8, 12, October, 2011.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{LoiseauSchwartzMusacchioAminSastry11_CongestionPricingUsingRaffleBasedScheme,
      author = {Patrick Loiseau and Galina A. Schwartz and John
                Musacchio and Saurabh Amin and Shankar Sastry},
      title = {Congestion Pricing Using a Raffle-Based Scheme},
      booktitle = {Network Games, Control and Optimization
                (NetGCooP), 5th International Conference},
      organization = {IEEE},
      pages = {1-8},
      day = {12},
      month = {October},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {We propose a raffle-based scheme for the
                decongestion of a shared resource. Our scheme
                builds on ideas from the economic literature on
                incentivizing contributions to a public good. We
                formulate a game-theoretic model for the
                decongestion problem in a setup with a finite
                number of users, as well as in a setup with an
                infinite number of non-atomic users. We analyze
                both setups, and show that the former converges
                toward the latter when the number of users becomes
                large. We compare our results to existing results
                for the public good provision problem. Overall,
                our results establish that raffle-based schemes
                are useful in addressing congestion problems.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/823.html}
  }
  

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