TRAFFIC WAVES

LINKS

LINKS

Simulators & Traffic Physics

SCIENCE NEWS: Stop and Go Science ( <--- highly recommended )
Treating Inadequate Headways... Lierkamp 2003
Jam-cancelling physics used on M25 and M42 in the UK
New discovery: adaptive cruise control busts traffic jams Craig Davis 2004
NW USA worst traffic: Seattle, I-90 merge into I-5 (google satellite photo map)
ABC News: Traffic articles
SciAm 2004 top 50 awards: traffic spacing
Washington Post 5/1999
Discover Mag: Curing congestion
M. Treiber's simulator (amazing java applet)
D. Helbing's simulator ring-road w/waves
T. Holland's traffic-wave applet
More simulators
K. Jain's student paper and PPT
MathTrek: waves of congestion
Chaotic shuttle buses
NATURE: one driver can trigger jams, and refs
Simulator coupled to real traffic
Traffic Dyseducational Film ( hilarious! needs flash plugin)
Traffic light algorithms via evolution
Last Word: cause of waves
Soundprint: Traffic Jam, chaos & road design (.rm audio, 28min)
U. of Duisburg Traffic-physics page
Forum for traffic research
Dr. D. Helbing U. Dresden
Berkely Highway Laboratory
New Scientist:What causes traffic waves?
Traffic light sim
Research papers
Collision avoidance (pedestrians)
Java Traffic Simulator (stop lightss in city, try delay=15)
Traffic Shockwaves, professional traffic research (w/animations)
Traffic Waves Program (w/anim) (written in Media Lab starLOGO language)
Dynamics of Traffic Jams (w/anim)
Can chaos be engineered? (Nature)
TRAFFICWARE professional sw
Big MIT Traffic Simulator
BOOK: Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Massively Parallel Microworlds
BOOK: Road rage and agressive driving L. James, D. Nahl
BOOK: Moving Beyond Gridlock: Traffic and Development
BOOK: Traffic and Granular Flow 1999
BOOK: Traffic and Granular Flow 2001

Other Traffic sites:

Jam-cancelling Commuter Awareness Project, first one ever, CARma in Atlanta
Seattle forum: road rant
Chaos equals cooperation
Search: "Mobile Speed Bump" program
Traffic Zoology, crystalline amoebae on Kuro5hin
Traffic Waves site made the Seattle Times even twice
Above Average Driver.com
Slow down, take the pledge
Driver Stories
- Traffic Bottleneck Users Guide
- Gravel Pit Etiquette (excellent!)
FixOurTraffic, local forum in Seattle
Hey, I was interviewed by BBC News
Art Car: LET PEOPLE MERGE
Fight traffic clumps: go with the flow (SF Chronicle)
Mysteries of traffic congestion (SF Chronicle)
Global Ideas Bank (vote on 'anti-traffic')
Traffic Social Psychology (online book chapter, excellent!)
Sci Frontiers: traffic jams
Traffic Zipper (Netherlands)
Atlantic Monthly: The Physics of Gridlock
Traffic Busting, go play in traffic
Tailgaters and red lights
A traffic screensaver (for MS-WIN) (freeware, m25.zip)
Worst traffic bottlenecks in the US
Q & A from "Life's Little Questions" show about traffic jams
Traffic Waves article on Discovery Channel
Seattle-area rush-hour graphs
L.A. Traffic
Seattle Traffic Cameras
Seattle Realtime Traffic Map
REC.AUTOS.DRIVING (Newsgroup)

References

"Stop and Go Science", by P. Weiss, SCIENCE NEWS, V156 No1 7/3/99

"TRAFFIC WAVES", in Scientific American Magazine THE AMATEUR SCIENTIST, March 1983

"Jams, waves, and clusters," D. Helbing & M. Treiber, Science #282, 11 Dec 2001

"Experimental Features of of Self-Organization in Traffic Flow"
B. Kerner, Physical Review Letters, vol 81, pp3797-3800, 26 Oct 1998

Other things here:

Merging-lane Traffic Jams (w/gif animation)
TRAFFIC EXPERIMENTS, Annhilating traffic-waves with artificial pulses of "antitraffic."
Collected email messages (Newsgroup msgs too)
Email about merging-lanes traffic jams.
COMMENT BOOK, add your own

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