Traffic jams without bottlenecks-experimental evidence for the physical mechanism of the formation of a jam

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Sugiyamal, Yuki ^a   Fukui, Minoru ^b   Kikuchi, Macoto ^c   Hasebe, Katsuya ^d   Nakayama, Akihiro ^e   Nishinari, Katsuhiro ^f,g   Tadaki, Shin Ichi ^h   Yukawa, Satoshi ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nakanihon Automotive College   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d AICHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^h SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

CRITICAL VALUES; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FREE FLOWING; HOMOGENEOUSLY DISTRIBUTED; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INTERACTING PARTICLES; JAMMING STATE; NON EQUILIBRIUM; PARTICLE SYSTEMS; PATTERN FORMATIONS; PHYSICAL MECHANISMS; SOLITARY WAVES; TRAFFIC JAMS; TRANSITION (JEL CLASSIFICATIONS:E52 ,E41 ,E31); VEHICLE DENSITY; VEHICULAR FLOW;

VEHICLES;

EID: 46249106807     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/3/033001     Document Type: Article

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