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> How do you model a traffic scenario where certain vehicles introduce more stringent constraints on the vehicles around them that are not purely limited to their physical place on the road? Would this really qualify as a PhD topic these days? Serious question.
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Here is a DIY traffic wave experiement I read on this topic. http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html . Pretty interesting results. bump: sorry. the remaining links look broken
I read the same article a while ago and added it to my (long) list of business proto-ideas. Here are the notes I scribbled a few years ago: "Build a web app/site that allows people to practice smoothing out waves, speed up time to see effects easily, animate the process for visual understanding, etc., etc. Maybe even issue stickers so one can identify people who are smoothers rather than just people cutting in line."…
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One of those papers mentioned in the article described "negative traffic" as the gaps in an otherwise saturated segment of road. Vehicles travelling behind the gap tended to have smoother acceleration curves. I've used this idea to great effect when stuck in traffic by moving into the far left lane, building up a nice gap in front of me, and then cruising at a steady 2-3mph instead of stop-and-go. I've noticed that p…
I myself try to do that in my lane. Building up a gap so I don't have to use the clutch and can just idle through traffic. I've had varying success with this technique.