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

This webpage is for supplementary information to the Paper:

M. Schönhof and D. Helbing (2007) Empirical features of congested traffic state and their implications for traffic modeling. Transportation Science 41(2), 135-166.

M. Schönhof and D. Helbing (2008) Criticism of three-phase traffic theory. Transportation Research B, in print.

 

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