News tagged with traffic flow

Intelligent Traffic System Predicts Future Traffic Flow on Multiple Roads

(PhysOrg.com) -- In urban areas, there’s almost always more than one way to get somewhere, but often it’s difficult to predict which road will be fastest. In an attempt to improve traffic flow and decrease ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (94) | comments 5 feature

Optimized by Evolution, Ants Don't Have Traffic Jams

(PhysOrg.com) -- As highway traffic increases, you'd probably expect a traffic jam, where vehicles slow down due to the high density. While traffic jams are a common occurrence on our highways, high density ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (21) | comments 17 feature

Two new studies suggest ways of improving traffic flow

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two studies have just been published that may help improve traffic flows. The first, presented as a Santa Fe Institute working paper for September, concluded that if traffic lights responded ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 15 | with audio podcast report

What causes traffic gridlock?

Everyday life enters a different phase on the Tuesday after Labor Day, the unofficial start of autumn in the United States. As students and employees return from vacation, and vehicles fully flood roadways ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Traffic jams follow explosive pattern, says researcher (w/Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Picture this next time you're stuck in traffic: Thousands of wildebeests loping across the Serengeti Plain when suddenly a few spooked animals turn the orderly migration into a sea of locked ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Waze turning road warriors into map builders

Technology startup Waze is tapping into the collective knowledge of road warriors in order to make life more pleasant for drivers while creating reliable street maps.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Strung along -- easing holiday traffic pain

This Easter, motorists will experience the familiar frustration of being stuck on a motorway in a stop-start traffic jam that eventually disperses with no apparent cause.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 02, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Wish for city of the future takes shape at TED

The innovation group TED has given its coveted annual prize for the first time to an idea -- the city of the future.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A mathematical model for moving bottlenecks in road traffic

Serious traffic gridlocks, like the jam on Beijing's national expressway a few months ago which brought vehicles to a halt for days, are a real-world issue needing attention. Unfortunately, such standstills are not uncommon ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast