Simulators & Traffic Physics
- Federal Hwy Admin: instructions for proper merging
- Don't be an
early merger, use both lanes, merge at the last minute
- CBC: signs to stop the early merging
- Rice trick: go slow to go fast, WA state DOT on youtube
- SCIENCE NEWS: Stop and Go Science ( <--- highly recommended )
- M. Treiber's simulator (amazing java applet)
- Pace
cars on I-70 Colorado
- Merge early or late? late merge wins!
- Traffic Ghost Hunting
- Successful jam forecasts (Germany)
- Forecast: simulator coupled to real traffic (Germany)
- Wavedriving vid
- Ringroad, R Wagner
- Blokrijden smoothing pace-cars in Europe
- Traffic Flow Theory .pdf ten chapters
- More simulators
- youtube:
- Real life traffic shockwave
- Phantom jams
- 55: Meditation on the Speed Limit (rolling barrier)
- Idiots removed!
even w/identical drivers, JAM STILL APPEARS! Not caused by human behavior.
- Racing to traffic light
- 3D simulator M. Treiber
- Bruno Bozzetto cartoon
- Willie Wonka Mudflaps
- Traffic Dyseducational Film ( hilarious! )
- Jam-cancelling physics used on M25 and M42 in the UK
- Treating Inadequate Headways... PDF paper, Lierkamp 2003
- New discovery: adaptive cruise control busts traffic jams Craig Davis 2004
- Police use 'pace cars' to smooth traffic (Dallas)
- Traffic science 5/1999 Washinton Post
- Curing congestion Discover Magazine
- K. Jain's student paper and PPT
- MathTrek: waves of congestion
- Chaotic shuttle buses
- NATURE: one driver can trigger jams, and refs
- Traffic-light algorithms via evolution
- Soundprint: Traffic Jams & Chaos(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
- Collision avoidance (pedestrians)
-
Java Traffic Simulator (stop lights 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)
- B. Coifman shockwave animations
- TRAFFICWARE professional sw
- Add More Lanes (traffic in 2050)
- BOOK: Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do 2008
- 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:
- My video: secret Zen
traffic warrior techniques
- Harmonization: Lane Variable Speed Limits about to
hit Seattle I-5
- Search: Traffic deaths lowest since
- Highway deaths plummet, but why?
- Unprecedented drop in highway deaths 2010
- NYC traffic deaths lowest in 100yrs 2009
- National Traffic Score, worst bottlenecks
- Edible traffic 'jam'
- Trafficwaves.org publicity:
- Topsy backlinks for trafficwaves.org, also
trafexp.html
- NPR brief interview for Weekend
Edition (.mp3) Aug 12 2013
- An article
on cracked.com Feb 20 '13
pulled in about 100,000 hits in one day, then it got picked up by reddit
video. Then facebook, fark,
and i-am-bored.com
- An entry on Hackernews
triggered off a Twitter uproar,
got mentioned on Slate gabfest
- Column in The Stranger
- I got into the NY Times, Caldecott tunnel problem
- Trafficwaves made the Seattle Times
even twice Oct 2002
- Hey, I was interviewed by BBC News Nov/2000
- I'm in the SF Chronicle Jan 2002
- Made Cartalk's site of the week Nov 99
- Yahoo pick of the week Aug 98
- Cool Site ot day for 8/98
- Traffic Social Psychology (online book chapter, excellent!)
- Find My Accident
- Driver Stories
- Traffic Bottleneck Users Guide
- Gravel Pit Etiquette (excellent!)
- Chaos equals cooperation
- Traffic Zoology, crystalline amoebae on Kuro5hin
- Search: "Mobile Speed Bump" program
- Art Car: LET PEOPLE MERGE
- SEATTLE:
-
Don't Stop Moving (on 520)
- Seattle forum: road rant
- Traffic Cameras List,
and map
- Seattle Realtime Traffic Map
- Worst traffic bottlenecks in the US (1999)
- NW USA worst traffic: Seattle, I-90 merge into I-5 (google maps)
- Seattle-area rush-hour graphs
- Mysteries of traffic congestion (SF Chronicle)
- Global Ideas Bank (vote on 'anti-traffic')
- Jam-cancelling Commuter Awareness Project in Atlanta
- Sci Frontiers: traffic jams
- Traffic Zipper (Dutch, .nl)
- 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)
- Q & A from "Life's Little Questions" show about traffic jams
- Traffic Waves article on Discovery Channel
- L.A. Traffic
- FixOurTraffic, forum (defunct, archive)
- REC.AUTOS.DRIVING (Usenet)
- Ancient 1998 vers. of Trafficwaves site on archive.org
| |
.