Following the 60-mile traffic jam in China that lasted for several days, The Wall Street Journal published a story about traffic, “The Inconvenient Truth About Traffic Math: Progress Is Slow,” by Carl Bialik.
The article focuses on the challenges faced by traffic engineers working on congestion remediation. As part of the story, the article underlines the progress and the challenges in mathematical traffic modeling, and in particular the work of Professor Alex Bayen, as part of the Mobile Millennium project.