Traffic jams seem to appear out of nowhere and sometimes for no good reason other than to frustrate you. If you've ever wanted to see just how easy it is for a jam to get started, take a look at ...

Via Brad Plumer: a traffic jam in in a bottle. To me, it’s pretty remarkable how closely the real-world experiment above matches up with this java-based computer traffic simulator. Warning: if you ...

The image of a backed-up highway leading away from the scene of a natural disaster may soon be history, if researcher Yi-Chang Chiu and his colleagues at the University of Arizona have their way. They ...

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SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany — The 270-degree screen powered by more than 17 computers would be a video game junkie’s dream. But for air-traffic controllers with the Spangdahlem-based 52nd Operations ...