Modern life speculation-traffic jams, maps and traffic planning

Wasteland Cat: Chaos, I recently read a diary written by a modern man. Road traffic seems to bring a lot of troubles to modern people? It seems that these are never mentioned in the books I read.

Chaos Cat: should be used to such trivial matters a long time ago, who would write this in a book specially.

Wasteland Cat: However, this is something that takes up a lot of people's time every day.

Chaos Cat: It is also true, some people even take three or four hours to commute!

(the following is the content of the diary, there is a text version at the end of the article, easy to speak)



The wasteland cat goes out: suddenly wants to go out of chaos.

Chaos Cat: Ah, what a surprise. Okay, let's get up, don't get stuck in traffic!


Wasteland Cat: Wow. I really like this perspective. This road is really blocked, why is it so blocked?

Chaos Cat: because there is a common direction!

Wasteland Cat: Now that there are so many road monitoring methods and the high degree of vehicle interconnection, it is still impossible to arrange roads, control traffic lights, etc. reasonably? Are you not a beast, can't you do something?

Chaos Cat: This is a complicated problem.You know I am the worst at this kind of complicated thinking. Shall I go and eat the car?

Wasteland Cat: ······

The following is the diary text version, thanks for reading.

Remember the way to work in the morning


Today is the same day as usual. I rushed to my bag and stuffed my daily necessities, while taking out my phone, opening Didi, today is On a smooth day, the driver was appointed soon.

came to the gate of the community and started to wait for the bus.

At the same time, open Baidu map, Gaode map and Didi navigation comparison.

Recently, Didi's navigation seems to have given up its plan to choose the best route for users, and has become a personal one. Because it is not aware of this change, it has been victimized several times.

When the car comes, and the moment I get in the car, I start to feel nervous. Where will the driver drive?

Follow the navigation, check the map by yourself, or ask me.

The driver, kindly took the initiative to say that the route of Didi Navigation is in a traffic jam and wanted to change the road. I readily agreed.

Constantly compare the three maps with very different displays and guidelines. The previous section was fairly unobstructed, and then came to a congested corner.

At this time, the road recommended by the map has changed. The guide is going straight instead of turning. Obviously the driver is still maintaining the original route. Should I tell the driver about the route? I hesitated.

Fortunately, I didn't wait too long. The car moved and I didn't speak.

Then, there was another period of congestion. An uncle traffic policeman was controlling the traffic lights. I saw that there were no other routes to choose from. I started to discuss road planning with the driver and whether the control was effective.

Why are there so many traffic lights for a short stretch of road?

It is obvious that it can Unicom Why are the two roads separated?

Is the traffic light controlled by humans really effective in dredging traffic?

What is the algorithm of map navigation?

How does the map navigation of the taxi-hailing software give guidance based on the calculation logic?

Of course,This is destined to be an unsolvable dialogue, and everyone has a different point of view.

Fortunately, I came to the company on time, a lucky day.

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