The movement of ants could help solve traffic jams and crowd congestion, Australian scientists professor Graham Currie and associate professor Martin Burd, from Melbourne?s Monash University, say.

They concluded that the teamwork of ants was far superior to the individual approach of humans.

?The earliest records of congestion in cities was associated with Roman times about 2 000 years ago where they had to ban chariots from the center of Rome. Ants have been dealing with congestion for millions of years.? Humans could learn from ants about how to deal with traffic congestion and exiting large venues after concerts or sporting events. ?Ants will organize their freeways? so that ants bearing loads are in the middle of the freeway all going one direction, and those that are unladen are on both sides of the middle row.? In human crowds there is a tendency to follow the individual in front of you and that creates lots of snakes within crowds ... and that breaks down the crowd flow, making it move slower.