Study suggests that as few as 5% autonomous cars can enable flow control to dampen traffic waves

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By mmillikinFeb 21, 2018, 5:00 am124 pts
Stop-and-go traffic waves—“phantom traffic jams”—emerge when small perturbations—such as a lane change, merge, or just because of natural osciallations in human driving—amplify and grow backwards along the road. A new study to be published in Transportation Research - part C provides experimental…

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Study suggests that as few as 5% autonomous cars can enable flow control to dampen traffic waves

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