Change nothing else except the volumes shown in cells D9, D10, and D11

Make sure those sum to 50!!

That is, there are 50 trips going from Zone 1 to Zone 2
You might have 30 of them use path 1 (link L14 and then link L42), 15 use path 2, and 5 use path 3.
That's what is currently shown!
Now, adjust those path volumes so that travel times are equal. How might you use solver do do this!
Congratulations--you just implemented an equilibrium assignment
 Link Free Link Link Congested 4
Link Link Volume Link Cost L14
Flow Time Capacity time L42
L13 5 20 20.0 10 200 5
L14 20 200 30.0 20 614 L34
L34 3 50 15.0 3 49 11 2
2
L42 4 20 45.0 24 1,091
L32 5 20 5.0 5 27 L13 L32
1,980
PathsPath Time Path Volume Path Cost 3
Travel From
Zone 1 to 2

L14,L4244.70 30.00 1,341

L13,L34,L42
37.52 15.00 563   Link Volume  2 
L13,L3215.31 5.00 77 Link Congested Time  Link Free Flow Time 1    
Link Capacity  
Total 50 1,980   
Example: With path volumes of 30, 15, and 5 I have a total cost of 1,980 (Case 0)
Example: With path volumes of 18.84, 5.74, and 25.42 I have user equilibrium and 1511 total cost (Case 1)
Example: With 20.84, 3.74, and 25.42 I have nonuser equilibrium and 1468 total cost (Case 2)
Example: Now change free flow time from 3 to 2 for Link 34 and get 1532 higher total cost with equilibrium (Case 3)
Example: Change capacity from 50 to 5 for L34 (to reduce total cost to 1487) with user equilbrium (Case 4)
Case 0 Case 1 Case 2 Case 3 Case 4
30 18.84 20.84 17.62 20.35
15 5.74 3.74 7.84 3.18
5 25.42 25.42 24.54 26.47
50 50 50 50 50
Lower cost
User by not being Increase total Decrease total
Random
equilibrium in cost by cost by
equilibrium decreasing link decreasing link
base time from 3 capacity from 50
to 2--User to 5 (surprising!)--
equilibrium User equilibrium
nk Volume  
2

 
k Capacity  
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