{"id":6571,"date":"2010-09-16T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6571"},"modified":"2010-09-16T03:00:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T08:00:12","slug":"the-needs-of-the-many-outweighs-the-needs-of-the-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6571","title":{"rendered":"The Needs of the Many Outweighs The Needs of the Few"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alphagalileo.org\/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=85211&amp;CultureCode=en\">Self-organizing traffic lights<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The key is that this kind of control does not fight the natural fluctuations in the traffic flow by trying to impose a certain flow rhythm. Rather, it uses randomly appearing gaps in the flow to serve other traffic streams. According to their simulations, this strategy can reduce average delay times by 10%\u201330%. Remarkably, the variation in travel times goes down as well, although the signal operation tends to be non-periodic and, therefore, less predictable. You can&#8217;t say precisely how the lights will go on and off, but you can be sure your drive will be shorter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So it sounds like if you&#8217;re in a dense group of cars, you&#8217;ll see more green lights, but if you are alone or in a sparsely bunched group, you&#8217;re likely to get a red,  Which bunches you up, et cetera, et cetera.  IOW, opposite of the way lights seem to run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-organizing traffic lights The key is that this kind of control does not fight the natural fluctuations in the traffic flow by trying to impose a certain flow rhythm. Rather, it uses randomly appearing gaps in the flow to serve &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6571\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}