Traffic Simulation

I love that it has really good model explanations. On my simulations though, trucks tended to drive extensively on the left lane. In real life trucks don't usually do this.

Re: Traffic Simulation

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Post by Monkey0x9 » Sat, Jun 11, 2016, 11:42 AM UTC

Very nice, I played a bit around with it but there is 1 thing that bothers me. The sliders all start at the left but the value it represents isn't at the left. Some sliders should start in the middle to be right.

Re: Traffic Simulation

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Post by reitanqild » Sat, Jun 11, 2016, 11:57 AM UTC

Interesting[0] story from a friend of mine who is a real engineer:

Back where he used to live at some point road authorities increased speed limits and found that average speed decreased. His explanation was simple: once speed limits matched drivers expectations they started to respect them. (Other explanations that I can pull from thin air now is police promising that the new limits will be enforced a lot less leniently than the old, or that speeds went down because of saturation congestion.)

[0]: although unconfirmed for me IIRC, maybe someone here can tell me were to find data