No, the article isn't any better than the headline either. It starts out promisingly (boldface emphasis mine):

“[Engineers] do not have competencies in the field of system-related increases in traffic performance,” says Alexander Krylatov, a mathematics professor at St. Petersburg University. “If engineers manage to achieve local improvements, after a while the flows rearrange and the same traffic jams appear in other places.” Burn!

That quote is dead accurate, and evidence to support it can be found any time a city adds lanes to a major urban freeway. In fact, more often than not, the same traffic jams eventually emerge in the same places too, as on Houston's Katy Freeway, where the average afternoon commute time from downtown increased by 55% after the freeway was widened to an astonishing 23 lanes.

Where it all falls apart is Krylatov's proposed solutions, which are fourfold:

Put all drivers on the same navigation system, with detour instructions coming from one central hub. Remove on-street parking to add lanes to congested segments of busy roads. Create special lanes reserved for electric cars. Use digital modeling to painstakingly re-create "twins" of entire street networks to run simulated optimization experiments.

We could devote a whole article to each of those four things, and how absurd the notion is that any of them will do much to rescue drivers from traffic purgatory. But suffice it to say that Krylatov's problem here can be expressed in two words: domain dependence.

Domain dependence, according to this good read by Safal Niveshak, is the inability to "recognize the forces at play outside of the system in which we’ve learned about them." It's summed up in folk wisdom with the aphorism, "When you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail."

What forces are at play outside of the network of nodes, links, and traffic flows which a mathematician like Krylatov sees? Or, equally, outside of the lanes and accesses and choke points which a traffic engineer sees?

Simply: human behavior. Each of us makes choices in where we're willing to live, how we get to our jobs, where we shop, send our kids to school, attend religious services and so forth. We make these choices within certain constraints: how much money can I afford to spend on transportation? And how much of my time am I willing to spend traveling each day?