idea
Traffic congestion appears when the infrastructure cannot sustain the volume of traffic it sees.
links
Congestion can be linked to Tragedy of commons: each additional driver electing to go onto a busy road rather than an alternative makes the situation marginally worse.
Traffic can be caused by a Single Point of Failure in the grid.
Traffic at a local point can be made better with [[damper]]s
references
- Penn State University / Tragedy of Traffic? links traffic to tragedy of commons