{
  "id": "cond-mat/9804170",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1998-04-16T14:29:45.000Z",
  "updated": "1998-04-16T14:29:45.000Z",
  "title": "Metastable States in Cellular Automata for Traffic Flow",
  "authors": [
    "R. Barlovic",
    "L. Santen",
    "A. Schadschneider",
    "M. Schreckenberg"
  ],
  "comment": "15 pages, 8 ps-figures included; accepted for publication in EPJ B",
  "doi": "10.1007/s100510050504",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "Measurements on real traffic have revealed the existence of metastable states with very high flow. Such states have not been observed in the Nagel-Schreckenberg (NaSch) model which is the basic cellular automaton for the description of traffic. Here we propose a simple generalization of the NaSch model by introducing a velocity-dependent randomization. We investigate a special case which belongs to the so-called slow-to-start rules. It is shown that this model exhibits metastable states, thus sheding some light on the prerequisites for the occurance of hysteresis effects in the flow-density relation.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1998-04-16T14:29:45.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "metastable states",
      "traffic flow",
      "basic cellular automaton",
      "nasch model",
      "high flow"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 15,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}