Traffic jams are contagious. Understanding how they spread can help make them less common
- Written by Meead Saberi, Senior lecturer, UNSW
Traffic jams may have disappeared from our roads as people stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic, but we can be confident they will be back. Scientists have studied traffic and congestion for decades.
We know a lot about how traffic jams form, how they spill from one road to another, and also how can we stop them happening and help cities...
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