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Wednesday, December 27, 2000
The Physics of Gridlock - 00.12 . . . many American traffic engineers insist that when breakdowns in flow occur for no apparent reason, it is only because no one has looked hard enough to find the reason, which could be anything from a bad stretch of pavement to a deer running across the road. Much work is now under way on both sides of the Atlantic on a "theory of bottlenecks" that may help to settle the matter. See also Constraints - A Highway Metaphor for a simpler (simplistic) consideration of the subject.
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