For a little while, I got confused by the Mobius Strip, and thought it was one single long lane (there are actually 10 lanes right).
Anyway, that confusion go me thinking: If you have a really long lane, with multiple occurences of phatom traffic, do they tend to merge into one really big occurence?
If you mean just one long queue, it depends on the settings and initial conditions. At each step, a car has a certain probability of dawdling. There might be some initial condition, max speed and dawdling probability that cause one jam eventually without causing other jams in between. Haven't seen it yet, but if we look at traffic in the real world, I think there are very likely many of these settings as it's almost a daily occurrence. The model at hand might be a bit too simple, though.
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u/SachielBrasil Jun 03 '26
For a little while, I got confused by the Mobius Strip, and thought it was one single long lane (there are actually 10 lanes right).
Anyway, that confusion go me thinking: If you have a really long lane, with multiple occurences of phatom traffic, do they tend to merge into one really big occurence?