Science news articles about 'traffic density'

... traffic increases, you'd probably expect a traffic jam, where vehicles slow down due to ... have traffic jams. Rather, as ant traffic density increases, the traffic maintains the same average velocity as ...

... amplified into a full-blown, self-sustaining traffic jam. A team of MIT mathematicians has developed ... design roads with enough capacity to keep traffic density low enough to minimize the occurrence ...

... of mechanical and aerospace engineering, the study indicates that such measures as regulating traffic density and encouraging public transportation can have a significant impact on local air quality. ...