Gridlock On The Autobahn

Plagued by traffic jams, Germany's high-speed autobahn looks more like a parking lot.

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March 10, 2005, 1:00 PM PST

" 'Around 80 percent of traffic jams occur because there are simply too many people on the same part of the road at the same time,' said Michael Schreckenberg, a professor of traffic physics at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

As happens every year at the start of the summer holidays when thousands of German drivers head south, all it takes is for one of them to slam on the brakes just a bit too zealously for smooth-flowing traffic to implode."

Thanks to Transport Policy Listserv

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