Comments on: Selfish Commuting, Redux http://www.howwedrive.com/2008/11/15/selfish-commuting-redux/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:45:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: michael webster http://www.howwedrive.com/2008/11/15/selfish-commuting-redux/#comment-2689 michael webster Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:05:20 +0000 http://www.howwedrive.com/?p=415#comment-2689 Tom, have I misunderstood your analysis? I thought that you had pointed out that a) sometimes the best way to reduce highway congestion was to allow the "free-riders" that zoom down either the entry lanes or even shoulders to converge back into traffic, but b) this solution really goes against the grain as well as not being a Nash equilibrium. At least this is what I tell everyone when I am recommending your book. Should I stop? Tom, have I misunderstood your analysis? I thought that you had pointed out that a) sometimes the best way to reduce highway congestion was to allow the “free-riders” that zoom down either the entry lanes or even shoulders to converge back into traffic, but b) this solution really goes against the grain as well as not being a Nash equilibrium.

At least this is what I tell everyone when I am recommending your book. Should I stop?

]]> By: D42 http://www.howwedrive.com/2008/11/15/selfish-commuting-redux/#comment-2678 D42 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:29:20 +0000 http://www.howwedrive.com/?p=415#comment-2678 That's the reason wqhy small mom & pop shops -always- fail to compete with the malls and large designers. Invariably, it is based around "individual" "vision".. and invariably it crashes, and gets consumed by the larger That’s the reason wqhy small mom & pop shops -always- fail to compete with the malls and large designers. Invariably, it is based around “individual” “vision”.. and invariably it crashes, and gets consumed by the larger

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