Analysis of the Braess paradox under various assignments from shipping units to carriers

Scientific Study from the year 2014 in the subject Economy - Transport Economics, grade: 2, University of Duisburg-Essen, language: English, abstract: The Braess paradox, introduced by D. Braess in 1968, describes the situation in which the total time spent in a system for at least two vehicles travelling from one node to another within a network of several nodes may increase if an additional path...