The paper is concerned with the problem of distributing a current of vehicular traffic on a conducting net between a source domain A and a destination domain B. It is investigated how local decision-making influences globally averaged quantities. The effects of a local, Boltzmann-like...

Path-choice problems in vehicular traffic in urban environments are dominated by an interplay of local decision-making and global optimization. With local routing uncertainties being taken account of by the introduction of an (repulsive) interaction of paths, a variational principle for the...