Citation

Orosz G, Wilson RE, Szalai R, Stépán G. Phys. Rev. E Stat. Nonlin. Soft Matter Phys. 2009; 80(4 Pt 2): 046205.

Affiliation

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA. gabor@engineering.ucsb.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, American Physical Society, Publisher American Institute of Physics)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

19905413

Abstract

A nonlinear car-following model is studied with driver reaction time delay by using state-of-the-art numerical continuations techniques. These allow us to unveil the detailed microscopic dynamics as well as to extract macroscopic properties of traffic flow. Parameter domains are determined where the uniform flow equilibrium is stable but sufficiently large excitations may trigger traffic jams. This behavior becomes more robust as the reaction time delay is increased.

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