Probabilistic traffic flow breakdown in stochastic car following models

Traffic and Granular Flow 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 87-103

  Jost, D ^a   Nagel, K ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Car following models; Critical point; Phase separation; Phase transition; Traffic breakdown; Traffic flow theory; Traffic simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CONFINED FLOW; GRANULAR MATERIALS; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CAR FOLLOWING MODELS; CRITICAL POINT; TRAFFIC BREAKDOWN; TRAFFIC FLOW THEORY; TRAFFIC SIMULATIONS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84870190108     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-28091-x_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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