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by niemandhier 27 days ago
It’s always the same: A system run at the boundary of its maximum throughput is brittle.

Tiny disturbances cascade and you get large fluctuations.

I have the standing hypothesis that there is a second order phase transition between free flowing trains and total collapse where the control parameter is the train density.

I just cannot identify the correct order parameter.