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Real life example of Braess’s paradox: Boston’s Big Dig

In class, we have discussed an important, yet unintuitive concept: the fact that adding an extra road or increasing capacity in a traffic network can actually increase the average travel time. This is called Braess’s paradox, and one real life example can be seen with one of Boston’s largest capital projects to date: The Big […]

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