Traffic jams
Most traffic jams are unnecessary. Local transport engineers manage to achieve local improvements, but after a while the flows rearrange, and the same traffic jams appear elsewhere.
Mathematicians who specialize in traffic flow would like to solve urban traffic jams forever.
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Mathematicians have solved traffic jams, and they're begging cities to listen
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"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it." -Frank Howard Clark
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