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Mathematicians Take Aim at Traffic Jams Thursday, June 11, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> General Science   
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Countless hours are lost in traffic jams every year. Most frustrating of all are those jams with no apparent cause -- no accident, no stalled vehicle, no lanes closed for construction. Such phantom jams can form when there is a heavy volume of cars on the road. In that high density of traffic, small disturbances (a driver hitting the brake too hard, or getting too close to another car) can quickly become amplified into a full-blown, self-sustaining traffic jam. (source: web.mit.edu)
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