[HN Gopher] Braess's Paradox
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       Braess's Paradox
        
       Author : ttesmer
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2022-11-02 20:21 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | dang wrote:
       | Related:
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       | 
       | There have been other threads on this theme that don't include
       | "Braess" in the title. Anybody want to find some?
        
       | jhoechtl wrote:
       | I might be overly anal, but how is this a paradox at all?
        
         | bananabiscuit wrote:
         | Most people would assume increasing capacity would always mean
         | greater throughput.
        
         | maest wrote:
         | There are multiple types of paradoxes:
         | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox#Quine's_classificati...
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         | This would fall under "veridical paradox" - true statement
         | which most people would expect to be false.
        
       | xypage wrote:
       | I wonder if routing services like apple/google maps consider this
       | when routing drivers. Theoretically they could avoid the paradox
       | by just not routing people the selfish way right? And here that
       | wouldn't make it better than the original, but in the real world
       | where they add helpful roads but they get too congested and slow
       | things down, they could (assuming everyone listened) stop them
       | from getting congested allowing for the benefits to be realized.
        
       | tuatoru wrote:
       | Also on wikipedia, for those who don't want to open a PDF.
       | 
       | 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess's_paradox
        
       | bananabiscuit wrote:
       | I noticed this first hand while playing SimCity 4. I used to make
       | my road network as connected as I could because I thought having
       | more route options would always lead to better traffic. I was
       | surprised one day when I demolished a particularly congested road
       | and my overall traffic actually became better. After some
       | experimentation I realized making the road graph more tree like
       | by reducing pathing options you can force the sims to use higher
       | capacity roads rather than having them all take low capacity
       | backroads to their destination.
        
       | aaron695 wrote:
        
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