{
  "id": "cond-mat/9901239",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1999-01-22T10:24:05.000Z",
  "updated": "1999-01-22T10:24:05.000Z",
  "title": "Explanation of Observed Features of Self-Organization in Traffic Flow",
  "authors": [
    "Martin Treiber",
    "Dirk Helbing"
  ],
  "comment": "Submitted on January 18, 1999. For related work see http://www.theo2.physik.uni-stuttgart.de/helbing.html and http://www.theo2.physik.uni-stuttgart.de/treiber.html",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "nlin.PS",
    "patt-sol"
  ],
  "abstract": "Based on simulations with the ``intelligent driver model'', a microscopic traffic model, we explain the recently discovered transition from free over ``synchronized'' traffic to stop-and-go patterns [B. S. Kerner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3797 (1998)]. We obtain a nearly quantitative agreement with empirical findings such as the ``pinch effect'', the flow-density diagram, the emergence of stop-and-go waves from nonhomogeneous congested traffic, and the dimensions of their wavelength.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1999-01-22T10:24:05.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "traffic flow",
      "explanation",
      "self-organization",
      "intelligent driver model",
      "microscopic traffic model"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "1999cond.mat..1239T"
    }
  }
}