Column jumping
As the column jump is called the phenomenon in Germany when motorists in traffic jams or congested traffic in the hope that progress more quickly, the lane change. The lane with the fastest traffic flow at times is always selected.
Effects on congestion
According to the knowledge of traffic physics, column jumping is suitable for promoting the formation of traffic jams out of nowhere and hindering the resolution of these traffic jams. As described in the Nagel-Schreckenberg model , the main reasons for these traffic jams are failure to keep the safe distance and the driver's overreaction to the braking of the vehicle in front. Since a lane change always leads to a reduction in the vehicle distance, this lane change will lead to braking maneuvers. If a sufficient safety distance to the overtaken vehicle is not maintained when cutting in after overtaking, this is a violation of Section 5, Paragraph 4 of the StVO "Whoever overtakes must not hinder the one who is overtaken."
Legal
Legally, it is in a gray area, as it is possible to drive faster on the right than on the left on motorways if there is a disruption in the sense of slow-moving traffic.
Column jumping is criticized because this road user constantly causes a dangerous accordion effect in which rear-end collisions threaten, as it undermines the safety distances of the individual road users.
According to the catalog of fines, overtaking on the right is punished with € 50 and three points, in certain cases it can also be a criminal offense in the sense of endangering road traffic .
Individual evidence
- ↑ For the different triggers of traffic jams, compare, for example, Dirk Helbing : The return of the "traffic jam from nowhere" ( memento of the original from April 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; in: Physik Journal 7 (2008) No. 6.
