Building Bigger Roads Makes Traffic Worse

Re:Building Bigger Roads Makes Traffic Worse by tdaltonc on Monday June 30, 2014 @09:57PM (#7968802)

I think that was just to keep the math easy. The principle holds if the switching time is non-zero, but the math becomes less clear.

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Re:Building Bigger Roads Makes Traffic Worse by frogpelt on Monday June 30, 2014 @11:38PM (#7969072)

The principle only holds if you are comparing switching between north-south or south-north. If you compare switching to not switching, it doesn't hold.

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Re:Building Bigger Roads Makes Traffic Worse by ablankst on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @11:22AM (#7971232)

Let the switch cost something like 1 unit and the analysis on the Wikipedia example still holds - at the switch, drivers face a choice between a 41 minute route and a 45 minute route. Yes, this paradox is a property of the specifics of the network in question, but it may hold for real networks is the claim.

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