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I think a lot of the counter-intuitive effects in traffic engineering are due to traffic arbitrage. If you make a path much better more people will take it unt

I think a lot of the counter-intuitive effects in traffic engineering are due to traffic arbitrage. If you make a path much better more people will take it until it's as bad as all the alternate routes.

rocqua 7y ago
It can actually be worse. This is called Braess's paradox [1]. The relevant part is: "an extension of the road network may cause a redistribution of the traffic that results in longer individual running times." Further down in the Wikipedia article is an actual example. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox