Degrading network capacity may improve performance

The Braess Paradox is a major finding in the equilibrium analysis of routing decentralized traffic in directed networks that are susceptible to congestion. It demonstrates that removing one or more links from a network that is subject to congestion may under certain combinations of cost structure and number of network users decrease the cost of travel for all its users. The Braess Paradox (BP) may be illustrated in networks modeled as non-atomic...