MARC, abbreviated for "Multi-agent Route Choice", is an interactive multiplayer game I developed to engage students in the process of learning route choice. This idea originated when I served as the teaching assistant of an undergraduate course “Introduction to Transportation Engineering” (CE 3201) at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2012.

In undergraduate transportation engineering courses, traffic assignment is a difficult concept for both instructors to teach and for students to learn, because it involves advanced linear algebra, mathematical derivations and computations. MARC game has offered students an effective learning experience and stimulated their interest in exploring the transportation planning model. This game has been tested for four semesters with 178 participants at University of Minnesota.