Degenerate Time-dependent Variational Inequalities with Applications to Traffic Equilibrium Problems

The aim of this paper is to study the continuity of the solutions to degenerate time-dependent variational inequalities. In order to obtain the continuity of the solution, a previous continuity result for strongly monotone variational inequalities and an appropriate use of the convergence set in Mosco’s sense play an important role. The continuity result allows us to provide a discretization procedure for the calculation of the solution to the variational inequality which expresses the time-dependent traffic network equilibrium problem.