Stop-and-Go Traffic
Video recording of the spontaneous breakdown of free traffic flow at a factually isolated on-ramp, merging with an innerurban freeway next to the public observation tower in Kairo.
During the recording, there were free flow conditions downstream of the on-ramp, which reproducably triggered the breakdown of traffic flow and the emergence of upstream moving stop-and-go waves. Qualitatively very similar traffic patterns are generated by the microscopic traffic simulator available at: http://www.traffic-simulation.de
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