Probabilistic description of traffic flow

Physics Reports

Volumn 408, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 1-130

  Mahnke, Reinhard ^a   Kaupuzs J ^b   Lubashevsky, I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^c PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cluster formation; Master equation; Nucleation; Phase transition; Stochastic processes; Traffic breakdown; Transportation

Indexed keywords

EID: 13844297849     PISSN: 03701573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2004.12.001     Document Type: Review

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