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…
Category Archives: Transportation Networks
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Traffic congestion: Tolls
In a preceding article we have used a simple model to demonstrate how selfish behavior can create additional congestion. One…
A Santa Claus network
Poor Santa has to travel all across the country to deliver all his presents. How does he do this? A…
TU/e: Profielwerkstuk over Grafentheorie
Op het gebied van netwerken biedt de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e) een opzet voor een profielwerkstuk over grafentheorie,