How Fast is Too Fast? Optimizing Traffic Flow on Highways.

A mathematical approach.

Maike Elisa
Cantor’s Paradise
8 min readJan 25, 2020

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Being German, I have been asked about the famous German Autobahn more than once. It also means that I have a lot of discussions about (non-existing) speed limits on (some) German roads and I have spent countless hours discussing whether speed limits (on highways) are a good thing or not.

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