Paul, The amount of cars that can pass thru the bottleneck has a fixed maximum per hour. It's something like 2,000 vehicles per hour thru a lane. That's roughly a continuous line of cars at 30 mph. When you try to jam more thru, the flow breaks down. Unstable waves of cars turn the lane into stop and go traffic. Selfish merging does the same thing. Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > But the distance you travel in a single, slower lane becomes less if you > wait to merge. So if the single lane is slower than the two double lanes, > efficiency is gained by merging at the last opportunity. > Paul > On May 7, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: > >> Bob, >> That's not really true. >> Make the pipe as big as you want (as many lanes) before the >> constriction (to one lane). >> Traffic flow will not improve. >> Regards, Bob S. >> >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> If everyone merges early they still need to know the rule to avoid huge >>> jams >>> in one or both lanes, but the unused lane is no longer serving traffic, >>> so >>> the total speed of the traffic is much slower. >>> >>> Bob >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
