

MIT mathematicians model traffic jams like detonation waves







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By bpurkapi on 6/11/2009 1:33:25 AM , Rating: 2
People driving fast, slow, lots of people all leaving for work and leaving work at the same time. Solved! I'm in Taiwan right now(live in Portland,OR) and must say that USA traffic jams are shocking. Taiwan has smaller roads, and a whole lot more people on them, the difference is that they have a crap ton of motorcycles and scooters. The scooters travel in something similar to bike lanes in the states, and are allowed to split lanes. So what I'm trying to say is that here traffic jams are less severe even though the roads are much smaller, plus the cities are super dense so work is usually somewhat close to home, and commuter rail comes every 10-15 minutes. Its all about options, more modes of transport means its less likely to have horrendous traffic jams.

