Macroscopic Simulation of Widely Scattered Synchronized Traffic States
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
Recently, a phase transition to synchronized congested traffic has been observed in empirical highway data [B. S. Kerner and H. Rehborn, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4030 (1997)]. This hysteretic transition has been described by a non-local, gas-kinetic-based traffic model [D. Helbing and M. Treiber, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3042 (1998)] that, however, did not display the wide scattering of synchronized states. Here, it is shown that the latter can be reproduced by a mixture of different vehicle types like cars and trucks. The simulation results are in good agreement with Dutch highway data.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9901119,
title = {Macroscopic Simulation of Widely Scattered Synchronized Traffic States},
author = {Martin Treiber and Dirk Helbing},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9901119},
year = {2009}
}
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For related work see http://www.theo2.physik.uni-stuttgart.de/treiber.html and http://www.theo2.physik.uni-stuttgart.de/helbing.html