Calm Traffic Needs More Than Calm Driving
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Traffic Jam Waves Are Counterintuitive


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Timetable
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00:00 The Phantom Jam Experiment
03:24 How Jams Travel in Time
07:07 Drivers Are Oscillators
15:40 The String Stability Problem
25:18 Few Can Stop All Waves
31:00 Jam-Free Traffic


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References
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Ring Road Experiment:
Raphael E. Stern, Shumo Cui, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Rahul Bhadani, Matt Bunting, Miles Churchill, Nathaniel Hamilton, R’mani Haulcy, Hannah Pohlmann, Fangyu Wu, Benedetto Piccoli, Benjamin Seibold, Jonathan Sprinkle, Daniel B. Work, Dissipation of stop-and-go waves via control of autonomous vehicles: Field experiments, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Volume 89, 2018, Pages 205-221.

TDOT I-24 MOTION Project:
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