Shockwave traffic jam recreated for first time
Shockwave traffic jam recreated for first time
Mar 3, 2008
newscientist.com
In a 2008 experiment, Japanese researchers recreated "shockwave" traffic jams, where congestion appears spontaneously without an accident or bottleneck. A team of 22 cars drove in a circle, and despite drivers trying to maintain a consistent speed, slight variations created a ripple effect of braking that caused a stop-and-go jam. The experiment proved that human driving behavior alone can trigger these phantom jams, with the backward-traveling wave of congestion mimicking real-world traffic. Cr
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