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🚗 Highway Traffic Flow (2D)

2D top-down Nagel-Schreckenberg traffic simulation: a cellular-automaton highway model with acceleration, braking, random dawdling and movement rules that produces emergent phantom traffic jams.

Society & Economics2DEasy60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

⚙ Under the hood

A 2D top-down traffic simulation using the Nagel-Schreckenberg cellular-automaton model. Cars on a multi-lane ring road follow four rules every step: accelerate, brake to the gap ahead, randomly slow down, and move forward. These simple rules cause phantom traffic jams to appear on their own, without any accident or bottleneck.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install