3/4/2008

Ok, ok, I will stop giggling about the how funny it sounds that traffic jams are caused by too many vehicles and say that even Tokyo pedestrian traffic is at times unfathomable without applying higher physics.

An accident? Construction work? A bottleneck? No, just too much traffic
Institute of Physics / 4-Mar-2008
A new study from a Japanese research group explains why we’re occasionally caught in traffic jams for no visible reason. The real origin of traffic jams often has nothing to do with obvious obstructions such as accidents or construction work but is simply the result of there being too many cars on the road….model patterns, normally used to understand the movement of many-particle systems, have been applied to real-life moving traffic...more...