Fundamentals of traffic flow

From single vehicle data a number of new empirical results concerning the density-dependence of the velocity distribution and its moments as well as the characteristics of their temporal fluctuations have been determined. These are utilized for the specification of some fundamental relations of traffic flow and compared with existing traffic theories.

• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Physical Review E

• Publication date

  1997-03-01

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Physics, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevE.55.3735arXiv cond-mat/9806080
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