Title
On a Paradox of Traffic Planning
Abstract
For each point of a road network, let there be given the number of cars starting from it, and the destination of the cars. Under these conditions one wishes to estimate the distribution of traffic flow. Whether one street is preferable to another depends not only on the quality of the road, but also on the density of the flow. If every driver takes the path that looks most favorable to him, the resultant running times need not be minimal. Furthermore, it is indicated by an example that an extension of the road network may cause a redistribution of the traffic that results in longer individual running times.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1287/trsc.1050.0127
Transportation Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
traffic flow,road network,paradox,existence theorem,optimal flows,traffic planning,equilibrium,traffic network planning,critical flows,optimization,performance,network planning
Existence theorem,Traffic wave,Traffic flow,Transport engineering,Flow (psychology),Road traffic,Redistribution (cultural anthropology),Traffic planning,Operations management,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
39
4
0041-1655
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
99
5.72
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dietrich Braess122528.90
Anna Nagurney267796.18
Tina Wakolbinger314310.04