Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Interesting traffic article
LDN tweeted this to me and I thought it was interesting.
File this one under “intensely counterintuitive.” A recent study has found that closing off certain streets can actually relieve traffic congestion.
Using Google Maps, a trio of scientists – Hyejin Youn and Hawoong Jeong, of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Michael Gastner, of the Santa Fe Institute – looked at traffic routes in Boston, New York, and London. Their paper, titled “The Price of Anarchy in Transportation Networks: Efficiency and Optimality Control” [PDF] and published in the journal Physical Letters, found that, when individual drivers seek the quickest route, they sometimes end up slowing things down for everybody.
I doubt it would work for Harringay, our geography has us living on traffic islands (well on the Ladder it does).
File this one under “intensely counterintuitive.” A recent study has found that closing off certain streets can actually relieve traffic congestion.
Using Google Maps, a trio of scientists – Hyejin Youn and Hawoong Jeong, of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Michael Gastner, of the Santa Fe Institute – looked at traffic routes in Boston, New York, and London. Their paper, titled “The Price of Anarchy in Transportation Networks: Efficiency and Optimality Control” [PDF] and published in the journal Physical Letters, found that, when individual drivers seek the quickest route, they sometimes end up slowing things down for everybody.
I doubt it would work for Harringay, our geography has us living on traffic islands (well on the Ladder it does).
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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You can see that on the motorways. Drivers notice that the other lane is moving faster so they barge over into it. Then they find that the speed of the new lane has slowed so they are no better off. But their action in changing lanes has contributed to an overall slowing effect.
Also, I believe that the variable speed limit on the M25 has been a success in that when everybody moves at the optimum speed for the traffic density at that time everybody gets there faster in the end.
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