phantom jam

phantom jam

English

Noun

phantom jam (plural phantom jams)

  1. (automotive) A slowdown in traffic that occurs without an apparent reason.
    • 1996, Achim Bachem, Dietrich E Wolf, Michael Schreckenberg (editors), Traffic And Granular Flow, page 76:
      Eventually, the phantom jam always dissolves. Sometimes the phantom jams are large and sometimes they are small.
    • 2001 August 25, Sherman Cahal, “ARTICLE: Traffic: Stuck in the Maddening Crowd”, in misc.transport.road‎[1] (Usenet):
      The leftover phantom jam might be miles away from its orgin.
    • 2003, Elsevier Limited (publisher), Control in Transportation Systems ... a Proceedings Volume from the IFAC Symposium, page 335:
      One of the most affected problems is the behavior of freeway traffic, which includes the appearance of "the phantom jam."
    • 2012, Martin Treiber, Arne Kesting, Traffic Flow Dynamics, Data, Models and Simulation, page 569:
      Finally, when interpreting accidents as events “out of thin air”, there are, in fact, phantom jams.
  2. (automotive) A traffic jam that appears at a distance on a highway, but in reality is an optical illusion.

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