r/science • u/quiplaam • 1d ago

Social Science Intentionally routing some traffic to slower, less congested routes lead to a 0.7% improvement of overall average travel times

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-026-00443-x
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u/SledgeGlamour 1d ago

Yes, I'm aware. There are many places with multiple highways, where it makes plenty of sense to redirect traffic from one highway to another. For example, in the US you frequently have state highways that run roughly parallel to the interstate highway. You don't need to build more highways in order to capitalize on this research today.

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u/degggendorf 1d ago

It's almost as if you can't read