{
  "id": "cond-mat/9809324",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "1998-09-24T08:29:11.000Z",
  "updated": "1999-05-27T07:50:11.000Z",
  "title": "Phase Diagram of Traffic States in the Presence of Inhomogeneities",
  "authors": [
    "Dirk Helbing",
    "Ansgar Hennecke",
    "Martin Treiber"
  ],
  "comment": "For related work see http://www.theo2.physik.uni-stuttgart.de/helbing.html and http://www.theo2.physik.uni-stuttgart.de/treiber.html",
  "journal": "Physical Review Letters 82, 4360-4363 (1999)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4360",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "nlin.PS",
    "patt-sol"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present a phase diagram of the different kinds of congested traffic that are triggered by disturbances when passing ramps or other spatial inhomogeneities of a freeway. The simulation results obtained by the nonlocal, gas-kinetic-based traffic model are in good agreement with empirical findigs. They allow to understand the observed trasitions between free and various kinds of congested traffic, among them localized clusters, stop-and-go waves, and different types of ``synchronized'' traffic. The proposed conditions for the existence of these states suggest that the phase diagram is universal for a class of different microscopic and macroscopic traffic models.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "1999-05-27T07:50:11.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "phase diagram",
      "traffic states",
      "congested traffic",
      "macroscopic traffic models",
      "spatial inhomogeneities"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett."
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}