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    The two traffic equilibria are not Pareto-indifferent — Carmelics
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    The two traffic equilibria are not Pareto-indifferent

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    • 1.The second equilibrium (slowing on yellows, jumping immediately on greens) allows more cars to turn in the dominant direction per cycle
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    • 2.More efficient turning reduces the main cause of bottlenecks in urban road networks
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    • 3.All drivers can expect greater efficiency in getting about under the second equilibrium
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    • 1.Pareto-indifference requires that no agent prefers one equilibrium to the other, but risk-averse drivers strictly prefer the yellow-slowing equilibrium as it reduces collision probability.
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    • 2.A Pareto comparison holds even if only a proper subset of agents has a strict preference, making the equilibria Pareto-rankable rather than indifferent.
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    • 1.Schelling's focal point theory establishes that equilibrium selection depends on salience, not aggregate efficiency, so drivers near congested junctions may locally prefer the first equilibrium.
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    • 2.If any agent's preference ordering over equilibria diverges based on positional context, the uniform Pareto-indifference claim fails for heterogeneous driver populations.
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    Ross & LaCasse (1995) present the following example of a real-life coordination game in which the NE are not Pareto-indifferent, but the Pareto-inferior NE is more frequently observed. In a city, drivers must coordinate on one of two NE with respect to their behaviour at traffic lights. Either all must follow the strategy of rushing to try to race through lights that turn yellow (or amber) and pausing before proceeding when red lights shift to green, or all must follow the strategy of slowi
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