I read this paper years ago, and I have tried this on every occasion possible--it seems to work. At the very least, it gives me something interesting to do while stuck in traffic. At the middling, I can often remove most of the stop-start traffic-waves I hit, leaving a line of traffic behind me that may slow and speed up, but never actually stops. At the very best, one or more other drivers near me start doing it too, and together we can completely dissolve traffic-panic standing waves and pulsed traffic waves--at least between our current location and the next merge ramp behind us.
~~James On 11/26/06, Ross Goeres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I lived in Maryland I found that my commute times when I was relaxed were > the same or shorter than when I was in a hurry (and it's better for the > nerves). Others who repeated this "experiment" reported similar results. > Given that FRIAM sometimes discusses the mathematics of cooperation, you may > find this story interesting: > > TRAFFIC "EXPERIMENTS" AND A CURE FOR WAVES & JAMS > http://amasci.com/amateur/traffic/trafexp.html ~~James http://www.turtlezero.com (JA-86) ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
