That is Why We Have Traffic Jams
3 Mar 2010 1 Comment
Do you sometimes wonder why you get stuck in traffic thinking that there must an accident or something blocking the way but suddenly the roads open up like nothing happened? Wonder no more, a team of Japanese scientists replicated the phenomena calling it the “Shockwave Jams”
The mathematical theory behind these so-called "shockwave" jams was developed more than 15 years ago using models that show jams appear from nowhere on roads carrying their maximum capacity of free-flowing traffic – typically triggered by a single driver slowing down.
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