Braess's paradox
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title:
Braess's paradox
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Braess's paradox is the observation that adding one or more roads to a road network can slow down overall traffic flow through it. The paradox was first discovered by Arthur Pigou in 1920, and later named after the German mathematician Dietrich Braess in 1968. The paradox may have analogies in electrical power grids and biological systems. It has been suggested that, in theory, the improvement of a malfunctioning network could be accomplished by removing certain parts of it. The paradox has been
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Paradox related to increasing roadway capacity
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox
date created:
2004-07-15T14:05:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T10:26:46Z
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