Complexity Scientist Beats Traffic Jams Through Adaptation
To tame urban traffic, the computer scientist Carlos Gershenson finds that letting transportation systems adapt and self-organize often works better than trying to predict and control them.
Hasnain says:
Pretty insightful read on transport systems, control theory, and on applying evidence based policies and failing to do so because of politics.
Oh and it discusses the lines between theory and practice; industry and academia.
"Once you build systems, it turns out that some holes in your concepts start to show up. You are faced with problems that you didn’t foresee. That forces you to refine your understanding, to revise your conceptual system. Answers always bring new challenges. But once you solve those challenges, then you can go back and make more soundly based conceptual contributions.
I have always gone from theory to practice and back."
Posted on 2020-09-30T07:39:28+0000