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Category Archives: Transportation Networks

A network describing transportation between different points. This can be a road network or perhaps a railway network. However, also the physically invisible network of flight routes belongs in this category.

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

Degrees in graphs IV: degrees in large real-world networks

How are elements in real-world networks connected? That is the question we aim to answer in this post. Most real-world…

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Remco van der Hofstad, Julia Komjathy January 14, 2018

Finding the shortest route to your holiday destination: Dijkstra's algorithm

Twenty years ago, driving to your holiday destination was a tedious task. You had to plot a route in a…

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Bart Jansen August 15, 2017

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…

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Sven Polak, Pieter Kleer June 1, 2017

Networks participation at SWI with a TNO problem

“Analyzing and Predicting Impact Created by Accidents on Road Networks” On January 23-27, 2017, the Study Group Mathematics with the Industry…

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Robert Fitzner, Stella Kapodistria January 31, 2017

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

A Santa Claus network

Poor Santa has to travel all across the country to deliver all his presents. How does he do this? A…

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Clara Stegehuis December 19, 2016

TU/e: Profielwerkstuk over Grafentheorie

Op het gebied van netwerken biedt de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e) een opzet voor een profielwerkstuk over grafentheorie,

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Bart Post November 30, 2016
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