More traffic problems

Written by Simon Bedford in Maths on Tue 09 February 2016. Tags: maths, coding,

Consider the following question posed on http://fivethirtyeight.com/:

There is a very long, straight highway with some number of cars (N) placed somewhere along it, randomly. The highway is only one lane, so the cars can’t pass each other. Each car is going in the same direction, and ...

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Traffic Modeling Part I

Written by Simon Bedford in Coding on Sat 07 February 2015. Tags: python, coding,

One of my personal projects for the beginning of this year was to get more comfortable with Python in preparation for (maybe) doing a Data Science course of some kind. However I knew that just trying to work through theory wouldn’t be very effective, and instead wanted to play ...

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