Re:Braess' paradox: adding a new road to a city can slow dow...
by derefr on Friday October 16, 2015 @02:05AM
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To put the original paradox another way, though: if you run a road out of town far enough, somebody will build an airport at the end. The airport is indeed an "external source of new traffic", but it was built because the traffic system had enough unused capacity to absorb the projected load.
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Re:Braess' paradox: adding a new road to a city can slow dow...
by sandworm101 on Friday October 16, 2015 @02:32AM
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I;m not convinced that the people building stadiums and airports go around looking for cities with extra traffic capacity. They are responding to forces well outside local traffic issues. The fact that they will generate increased traffic is a factor during planning and construction, but it is certainly not in any way a driving force behind the decision to build.