phantom traffic jams

As if bad drivers, road work, and traffic accidents weren’t enough to slow your commute, meet phantom traffic jams. What’s a phantom traffic jam? It is when a slow down occurs because of driver behavior and not an accident or obstruction. Tennessee is testing out a system of cameras to gather data to determine the quantity and rational behind phantom traffic jams. In one 3 hour span during the morning commute, researchers identified 20!!! waves of phantom traffic jams each and every work day.

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