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Traffic is a universal phenomenon for humans that creates casualties, economic impacts, heath problems, etc. However, traffic is also observed in the animal kingdom. For instance, ants have been found to be efficient and productive with traffic jams, unlike humans. While individual human tries to reach their destination by maximizing their speed, the goal of the ant traffic is such that all of the ants move to a place together. Ants are a communal species that try to find the best way for everyone rather than themself.
My proposal is a project that simulates the flow of traffic that ants possess, and the flow of traffic that humans possess. Comparing both the ants and humans will allow us to see that ants have more communally efficient traffic, and how humans might be able to change in order to create a similar environment. A main problem of my project is the stability of traffic. If traffic for ants and/or humans is unstable, it makes it more difficult to find a direct solution for inefficient traffic, but it also keeps the question of how can humans be as productive and efficient as ants in terms of traffic control.
Traffic is an important problem to solve, because it impacts productivity of many other things. Sources show that an average person spends 43 hours a year in traffic, roughly a full week of working. Not only does this take time from working and having higher productivity, it takes time from a person’s everyday life.