Gas-Kinetic-Based Traffic Model Explaining Observed Hysteretic Phase Transition
- 5 October 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 81 (14), 3042-3045
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.81.3042
Abstract
Recently, hysteretic transitions to “synchronized traffic” with high values of both density and traffic flow were observed on German freeways [B. S. Kerner and H. Rehborn, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4030 (1997)]. We propose a macroscopic traffic model based on a gas-kinetic approach that can explain this phase transition. The results suggest a general mechanism for the formation of probably the most common form of congested traffic.Keywords
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