Maokai Lin

 

From the growth of wireless communication bandwidth, many drivers can now receive traffic information and predictions in real time. Although they can also send feedbacks as they travel, this aspect of communication is often ignored. We propose and study a new interactive communication mechanism between drivers and a central information system. We show that the mechanism would prevent congestion caused by the simultaneous feed of homogeneous real-time information to drivers. We also show that in parallel networks, drivers have incentives to send the central system their true routing information.