More roads, more traffic? Braess paradox!
Traffic congestion is a huge problem in urban areas nowadays, road networks are becoming rather complicated to design and extending the…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Traffic congestion: Braess' Paradox
Traffic congestion is a huge problem in urban areas nowadays, road networks are becoming rather complicated to design and extending…
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…
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…