ABSTRACT
The workshop's interest was not just equilibrium within the various systems. The proceedings of the equilibrium modelling workshop are more easily, accurately and suggestively discussed in terms of general systems and their inter-dependencies. The terms of equilibrium analysis and equilibrium modelling are themselves inadequate to an efficient description of the workshop's discussions given their synthetic nature and their breadth. The discussion of network equilibrium began with the identification of a number of existing packages which can be used to compute approximations of network equilibrium. Detailed models would be used to compute the base point, before starting the network equilibrium process. Equilibrium models prove their importance by providing valid numbers for the evaluation of alternatives. There is an important practical deterrent to the use of network equilibrium procedures with disaggregate demand models. There was some disagreement about the utility of catastrophe theory on the analysis of transport and land-use systems.
