Life-Times of Simulated Traffic Jams
Condensed Matter
2009-10-22 v1 adap-org
chao-dyn
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Chaotic Dynamics
Pattern Formation and Solitons
patt-sol
Abstract
We study a model for freeway traffic which includes strong noise taking into account the fluctuations of individual driving behavior. The model shows emergent traffic jams with a self-similar appearance near the throughput maximum of the traffic. The lifetime distribution of these jams shows a short scaling regime, which gets considerably longer if one reduces the fluctuations for driving at maximum speed but leaves the fluctuations for slowing down or accelerating unchanged. The outflow from a traffic jam self-organizes into this state of maximum throughput.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9310018,
title = {Life-Times of Simulated Traffic Jams},
author = {K. Nagel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9310018},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
latex, figs. available upon request, WP-Cologne 93.141