Experimental features of the emergence of moving jams in free traffic flow
- 22 June 2000
- journal article
- letter
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 33 (26), L221-L228
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/33/26/101
Abstract
Conditions and features of jam emergence in free traffic flow are found. Observations show that a `free flow → jam' phase transition can occur only if the formation of synchronized flow is strongly hindered due to a non-homogeneity, in particular at a traffic split on a highway.Keywords
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