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Desktop Highway to Hell
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 It's the Christmas season, so you're probably not doing anything important at work right, now, are you?
Here's a toy/tool for anyone who's contemplated suicide in 405 gridlock, or wanted to play God of the Freeways: This Java-based traffic-jam simulator lets you explore just how badly one idiot driver or ill-timed Caltrans project can ruin the day for 100,000 commuters.
Once the applet loads, click on the "Laneclosing" button or one of the others, then move the "average density" slider up until jammage ensues. Consider - when you're playing with the simulator's numbers - that the 101/405 interchange suffers the weight of an average 530,000 vehicles per day, or more than 22,000 per hour ...
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For the real transportation geeks out there, the traffic wizards at The Dresden University Institute for Economics and Traffic have added 3-D simulation movies and downloadable source code, too.
(via Autoblog)
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| Posted by: Mack_Reed on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 - 09:49 AM
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