Reducing urban traffic congestion due to localized routing decisions

• Published in: Physical review research Vol. 2; no. 3; p. 032059
• Main Authors: Li, Bo, Saad, David, Lokhov, Andrey Y.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Physical Society (APS) 02.09.2020; American Physical Society
• Subjects: Computer Science; GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS

Balancing traffic flow by influencing drivers' route choices to alleviate congestion is becoming increasingly more appealing in urban traffic planning. Here, we introduce a discrete dynamical model comprising users who make their own routing choices on the basis of local information and those w...