This is an earlier experiment. Read the amendments below before treating its findings as current.
The question
The first crowding test stopped before any jam. This one pushed further.
What was tested
The crossing-streams test was extended to 400, 600 and 800 craft per km².
What was found then
Still no jam at 800 per km². Traffic moved (crowding times speed, in craft per km² × m/s) kept rising, to 2,259, while speed levelled off near 2.8 m/s. But the closest approach fell to 0.73 of the required spacing (below 1 means a safety bubble was entered). At high crowding, safety runs out before capacity does.
What changed
Nothing.
Numbers and source references
- 400, 600 and 800
- densities added, craft per km²results/results_phase4.json e8_density_extended
- 800
- highest density triedresults/results_phase4.json e8_density_extended
- 2,259
- flow (craft per km² × m/s) at 800/km²results/results_phase4.json e8_density_extended
- 2.8 m/s
- average speed plateau (2.82 at 800/km²)results/results_phase4.json e8_density_extended
- 0.73
- closest approach at 800/km²results/results_phase4.json e8_density_extended