Traffic congestion: Braess' Paradox
Traffic congestion is a huge problem in urban areas nowadays, road networks are becoming rather complicated to design and extending…
Author Archives: Pieter Kleer
Traffic congestion: Optimal tolling schemes
Congested road networks are a big problem in many countries. Building more roads is not always the best solution to…
Network analysis of tax treaties
Large international companies often do not send their profits directly from one country to another. Instead, they send it via…
Traffic congestion: Tolls
In a preceding article we have used a simple model to demonstrate how selfish behavior can create additional congestion. One…
Traffic congestion: Pigou's example
In network congestion models, we make some simplifying assumptions that make our life easier. In a large-scale system, each individual…
Congested Roads
Traffic jams are one of the biggest inconveniences in modern time. They lead to stressful situations for commuters, and cause…