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LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 3 weeks agoNo.
Throughput is determined by number of through-lanes and the speed at which traffic is moving. Period. Completely.
Filling the merge lane when traffic is already slow does nothing but drive density up, which slows traffic further.
Sure, YOU might save some time by passing a bunch of cars, but it DOES NOT IMPROVE THROUGHPUT.
Zipper merging is about NOT having an area of abrupt speed change. It is not about using up a lane that is going away. Period. Ever.
It’s the same as an on-ramp: If you’re speeding up just to slam on your brakes to merge, that’s not zipper merging!
TwoTiredMice@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
Someone made a simulator for these scenarios where you can adjust on driver behaviour and see metrics in what is most efficient.
www.traffic-simulation.de
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
And it shows exactly what I’m talking about. When people are more interested in filling lanes than merging efficiently when one is disappearing, they reduce the throughput of traffic over all.