Transportation economists have long known how to determine equilibrium configurations of travel demand and system behavior on static congested road networks. Yet applications consistently overpredict the effects that trends or policies will have on the maximum severity of peak-period congestion. A typical case is when a capacity expansion is predicted to lower congestion markedly during peak travel times but what actually occurs is a narrowing of the period of peak congestion: an example of the shifting-peak phenomenon.
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