On the traffic assignment problem, the Braess Paradox, traffic lights and road tolls

In our talk we describe the Braess Paradox and traffic management tools, s.t. traffic lights and road tolls, in equilibrium models (BMW and Nesterov-de Palma stationary dynamic models). The capability of this tools to take away the transportation system from inefficient traffic flow distribution will be consider. We will show, that in the original Braess Paradox case the ability of traffic lights to manage equilibrium traffic distribution are very limited. On the other hand road tolls are very efficient in this case.