Site icon Bacon's Rebellion

The Physics of Traffic Congestion

I won’t have much time for blogging today, so I’ll leave you with this short video clip, from New Scientist, of a Japanese experiment probing the “shockwave” phenomenon: traffic slowdowns that spontaneously appear without any obvious rhyme or reason.

Ah, human behavior… If it weren’t so complex and so demented, it wouldn’t be anywhere near so interesting!

Exit mobile version