Skip to content ↓

Andreas Schulz on algorithmic game theory and transportation

Presented by Transportation@MIT

It is well know that we cannot engineer our way out of traffic congestion by building new roads. In fact, expanding the road network may paradoxically attract new traffic, and increase gridlock. Andreas Schulz provides a mathematical explanation for this conundrum. Using Nash equilibria and related game-theoretic concepts he explores two issues, namely: “how much fuel and time can we save if we route traffic optimally, and secondly, can we save fuel and time by actually closing streets or rearranging vehicle flow on our existing road network?”



From MIT World

Related Links

Related Topics

More MIT News

 A person stands in a dimly lit space, facing a large, curved, sculptural structure.

Luna: A moon on Earth

MIT students and faculty designed and fabricated a control room for the first lunar landing mission since the Apollo era — an achievement in design and engineering.

Read full story