Macroscopic Simulation of Widely Scattered Synchronized Traffic States

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13 January 1999

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9901119

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.

Keywords

WIDELY SCATTERED SYNCHRONIZED
SCATTERING OF SYNCHRONIZED
SYNCHRONIZED TRAFFIC
PHASE TRANSITION
WIDE SCATTERING
TRAFFIC STATES
HIGHWAY DATA

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Version 1, 1999-01-13, ArXiv
Published version: Journal of Physics A: General Physics, 32 (1), L17.

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