An empirical study of common traffic congestion features based on traffic data measured in the USA, the UK, and Germany

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 390, Issue 23-24, 2011, Pages 4466-4485

  Rehborn, Hubert ^a   Klenov, Sergey L ^b   Palmer, Jochen ^c  

^a DAIMLER AG   (Germany)

^b MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c IT Designers GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analysis of measured traffic data; Empirical traffic congestion; Kerner's three phase theory

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS;

CONGESTED TRAFFIC; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FREEWAY NETWORKS; STATISTICAL STUDY; SYNCHRONIZED FLOW; THREE-PHASE THEORIES; TRAFFIC DATA; TRAFFIC FEATURES;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 80052577152     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

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