You know the feeling: you’re cruising down the freeway when all of a sudden, and without apparent cause, a traffic jam brings you to a standstill. Before long, traffic is flowing again, and you have no idea what triggered the problem. Sure, you have your theories, but wouldn’t the whole thing have been far less frustrating if you had had a mathematical model that could explain it? Well, you’re in luck, because that’s just what a team of mathematicians from the Universities of Exeter, Bristol and Budapest have created. The model “revealed that slowing down below a critical speed when reacting… Keep reading.
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