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Category Archives: Traffic Congestion

Ding-Dong! Finally, your delivery driver is at your door

Why your packages arrive too late: the challenges (and solutions) behind last-mile delivery.

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Roshan Mahes September 2, 2022

Why you may need to reconsider your route selection criterium

You have a job interview in 20 minutes and you are in a hurry to arrive at your application in…

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Rens Kamphuis April 15, 2022

Predicting optimal routes in unpredictable networks

How does your navigation system find the fastest route in a road network, if it does not know where traffic…

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Nikki Levering June 25, 2021

How uncertainty can make traffic run smoother

Making decisions that affect traffic can have an enormous impact on our daily lives, the environment and our economy. We…

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Jaap Storm March 6, 2020

Traffic lights no longer needed: back to the future

Traffic lights are currently an annoying but inevitable part of traffic. With the introduction of self-driving cars however, can we…

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Rik Timmerman November 13, 2019

Traffic congestion: Braess' Paradox

Traffic congestion is a huge problem in urban areas nowadays, road networks are becoming rather complicated to design and extending…

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Pieter Kleer October 25, 2018

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…

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Pieter Kleer September 23, 2018

Traffic congestion: Tolls

In a preceding article we have used a simple model to demonstrate how selfish behavior can create additional congestion. One…

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Cristóbal Guzmán, Pieter Kleer December 29, 2016

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…

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Cristóbal Guzmán, Pieter Kleer January 11, 2016
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