Smeed's postulate under which it is possible for a driver to depart later and arrive earlier has been modified to show that under realistic traffic behavior assumptions this phenomenon cannot occur.
Moshe Ben-Akiva, André de Palma, (1986) Some Circumstances in Which Vehicles Will Reach Their Destinations Earlier by Starting Later: Revisited. Transportation Science 20(1):52-55.
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