Lectures
Monday, May 7, 2018
Fixing Urban Congestion with Dollars and Data
Lecture | May 7 | 4-5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
In many of the challenges faced by the modern world, from overcrowded road networks to overstretched healthcare systems, large benefits for society come about from small changes by very many individuals. We describe a framework for designing "nudge engines, focusing on influencing commuter behavior to reduce urban congestion. The framework consists of monetarily incentivizing commuters to make... More >