The idea of this lesson is to introduce, in a simplified manner, the so-called Braess Paradox by providing simple examples to clarify that the addition of some new roads to a network does not always lead to an improvement in the liquidity of the traffic; in some cases it might even increase the time required to get from one point to another if all drivers are selfish. [27:05] (English Subtitles)

Concepts

civil engineering

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Additional Tags

new roads, traffic planning, braess paradox, civil engineering projects, mit blossoms, nash equilibrium, traffic manager

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)