ENG301 Matching Headings-Practice

• A - A proposal to take control away from the driver

• B - How a maths experiment actually reduced traffic congestion

• C- Areas of doubt and disagreement between experts

• D - Dramatic effects can result from small changes in traffic just as in nature

• E - How a concept from one field of study was applied in another

HEADING E

How a concept from one field of study was applied in another

PASSAGE

Some years ago, when several theoretical physicists, principally Dirk Helbing and Boris Kerner of Stuttgart, Germany, began publishing papers on traffic flow in publications normally read by traffic engineers, they were clearly working outside their usual sphere of investigation

• A - A proposal to take control away from the driver

• B - How a maths experiment actually reduced traffic congestion

• C- Areas of doubt and disagreement between experts

• D - Dramatic effects can result from small changes in traffic just as in nature

• E - How a concept from one field of study was applied in another

HEADING D

Dramatic effects can result from small changes in traffic just as in nature

PASSAGE

Consequently, tiny variations in one part of a complex system can grow in huge but unpredictable ways.

• A - A proposal to take control away from the driver

• B - How a maths experiment actually reduced traffic congestion

• C- Areas of doubt and disagreement between experts

• D - Dramatic effects can result from small changes in traffic just as in nature

• E - How a concept from one field of study was applied in another

HEADING A

A proposal to take control away from the driver

PASSAGE

They further suggest that preventing breakdowns in the flow of traffic could ultimately require implementing the radical idea that has been suggested from time to time: directly regulating the speed and spacing of individual cars along a highway with central computers and sensors that communicate with each car’s engine and brake controls. 

• A - A proposal to take control away from the driver

• B - How a maths experiment actually reduced traffic congestion

• C- Areas of doubt and disagreement between experts

• D - Dramatic effects can result from small changes in traffic just as in nature

• E - How a concept from one field of study was applied in another

HEADING C

Areas of doubt and disagreement between experts

PASSAGE

However, research into traffic control is generally centered in civil engineering departments and here the theories of the physicists have been greeted with some skepticism.