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Experimental Properties of Phase Transitions in Traffic Flow
Abstract
Investigations of a great number of measurements of traffic flow on German highways show that there are some common macroscopic properties of phase transitions between free flow, synchronized flow, and traffic jams. In particular, it is shown that a short-time localized perturbation is able to cause a local phase transition from free flow to synchronized flow and that synchronized flow of slow moving vehicles can further be self-maintained on a highway for several hours.
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Experimental properties of complexity in traffic flow
Kerner, B. S., & Rehborn, H. (1996) · Physical Review E · doi:10.1103/physreve.53.r4275 · Cited by 500
Self-citationExperimental features and characteristics of traffic jams
Kerner, B. S., & Rehborn, H. (1996) · Physical Review E · doi:10.1103/physreve.53.r1297 · Cited by 486
Self-citationEmpirical analysis of freeway flow-density relationships
Hall, F. L., Allen, B. L., & Gunter, M. A. (1986) · Transportation Research Part A: General · doi:10.1016/0191-2607(86)90094-4 · Cited by 194
Deterministic spontaneous appearance of traffic jams in slightly inhomogeneous traffic flow
Kerner, B. S., Konhäuser, P., & Schilke, M. (1995) · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics · doi:10.1103/physreve.51.6243 · Cited by 147
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- Authors
- Kerner, B. S., & Rehborn, H.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1997-11-17
- Volume
- 79
- Issue
- 20
- Pages
- 4030-4033
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2005293697
- Cited by
- 521
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 45.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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