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Published online 11 October 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021007-10

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Model irons out traffic jams

Speed limits and driver assistance technology could keep cars moving.

Traffic-dependent speed limits and driver-assistance technology could make traffic jams a thing of the past. So suggests a computer model built by Martin Treiber and Dirk Helbing of the Technical University of Dresden in Germany1.

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