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One unfortunate side-effect of traffic capacity expansion is that usage increases to compensate: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Matthew_Tur
by rpedroso 10y ago
One unfortunate side-effect of traffic capacity expansion is that usage increases to compensate:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Matthew_Turner/papers/published/Duranton_Turner_AER_2011.pdf http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Matthew_T...
- masterleep 10y agoIf you replaced "unfortunate" with "fortunate", then I would agree with your statement.
- sp332 10y agoSo, more people are using the system more often, but somehow that's a bad thing?
- mysterydip 10y agoThis is actually how the original simcity handled its traffic algorithms and why as a kid I always failed to fix the problem :) Read about it years later in the SimCity Planning Commission Handbook (which I first found from a discussion here, coincidentally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10168016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10168016)