{"id":3361,"date":"2018-01-23T12:17:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T19:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2018-01-23T12:17:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T19:17:40","slug":"traffic-flow-simulated-on-30-different-kinds-of-4-way-junctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3361","title":{"rendered":"Traffic flow simulated on 30 different kinds of 4-way junctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a really fascinating animation and analysis of traffic flows with different intersection methodologies. More interesting is that they were done with off-the-shelf steam games\/tools found on Steam. I think<\/p>\n<p>Network Extensions 2<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=812125426<\/p>\n<p>Traffic Manager: President Edition<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=583429740<\/p>\n<p>Some interesting observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 way intersections with lights (235 cars\/min) is only slightly better than a no light free-for-all (191 car\/min)<\/li>\n<li>Standard roundabouts with stops are really horrible, but get pretty interesting and good with a few simple improvements<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a lot of interesting junction\/interchange types I&#8217;ve never seen before<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yITr127KZtQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a really fascinating animation and analysis of traffic flows with different intersection methodologies. More interesting is that they were done with off-the-shelf steam games\/tools found on Steam. I think Network Extensions 2 https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=812125426 Traffic Manager: President Edition https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=583429740 Some interesting observations: 4 way intersections with lights (235 cars\/min) is only slightly better than a no light free-for-all (191 car\/min) Standard roundabouts with stops are really horrible, but get pretty interesting and good with a few simple improvements There&#8217;s a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3361\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-Sd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3362,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}