Attention all civil engineers! This is something you should be looking at.
According to Autocar, the geniuses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have conducted research into figuring out what is the deal behind "phantom" traffic jams.
You know, when you're driving down the road and there is random gridlock. Once you get through it you realize, "Hey, wait. There was no accident or reason for that, WTF?"
The findings by the big brains at MIT seem to have figured out a formula that has a connection to the way explosion-triggered detonation waves are described. Essentially, it appears to have to deal with amplification and reactions.
So, if Driver 1 brakes a bit, Driver 2 brakes harder and Driver 3 has to slow down to avoid the vehicle in front of them.
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Traffic jams can be predicted by a new formula developed by mathematicians at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The research, that predicts the occurrence of “phantom” jams, could lead to better road designs in future.
“Phantom” jams are those not caused by accidents or roadworks, but due to small disturbances in high density traffic such as a driver braking too hard...
[Source: Autocar]
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