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Conventional traffic engineering assumes that given no increase in vehicles, more roads mean less congestion. So when planners i
Conventional traffic engineering assumes that given no increase in vehicles, more roads mean less congestion. So when planners i
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2018-01-08
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Conventional traffic engineering assumes that given no increase in vehicles, more roads mean less congestion. So when planners in Seoul tore down a six-lane highway a few years ago and replaced it with a five-mile-long park, many transportation professionals were surprised to learn that the city’s traffic flow had actually improved, instead of worsening. It was like an inverse of Braess’s paradox.
Mathematician Dietrich Braess of Ruhr University Bochum in Germany states that in a network in which all the moving entities rationally seek the most efficient route, adding extra capacity can actually reduce the network’s overall efficiency. The Seoul project inverts this dynamic; closing a highway—that is, reducing network capacity—improves the system’s effectiveness.
Although Braess’s paradox was first identified in the 1960s and is rooted in 1920s economic theory, the concept never gained enough attention in the automobile-oriented U.S. But in the 21st century, economic and environmental problems are bringing new scrutiny to the idea that limiting spaces for cars may move more people more efficiently. A key to this counterintuitive approach to traffic design lies in manipulating the inherent self-interest of all drivers.
A case in point is "The Price of Anarchy in Transportation Networks," published last September in Physical Review Letters by Michael Gastner, a computer scientist at the Santa Fe Institute, and his colleagues. Using hypothetical and real-world road networks, they explain that drivers seeking the shortest route to a given destination eventually reach what is known as the Nash equilibrium, in which no single driver can do any better by changing his or her strategy
unilaterally
. The problem is that the Nash equilibrium is less efficient than the equilibrium reached when drivers act unselfishly—that is, when they coordinate their movements to benefit the entire group.
The "price of anarchy" is a measure of the inefficiency caused by selfish drivers. Analyzing a commute from Harvard Square to Boston Common, the researchers found that the price can be high—selfish drivers typically waste 30 percent more time than they would under "socially optimal" conditions.
The solution hinges on Braess’s paradox, Gastner says. "Selfish drivers can be led to a better solution if you remove some of the network links, in part because closing roads makes it more difficult for individual drivers to choose the best (and most selfish) route."
We can infer from Paragraph 1 that______.
选项
A、all transportation experts felt surprised facing the case of Seoul
B、Seoul replaced a park with a highway to raise road capacity
C、Seoul’s case is not exactly like the Braess’s paradox
D、traditional traffic engineering believes more roads lead to less traffic jams
答案
C
解析
此题为细节分析题。该段第二句举例:当几年前首尔的规划人员拆毁一条有六条车道的高速公路,取而代之的是一条五英里长的公园后,许多交通专家们吃惊的发现城市的交通流量明显得到改善,并没有变得更糟。最后一句总结,这(首尔事例)相当于逆向柏拉斯悖论。因此可知,C选项为正确答案。
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