TY - JOUR PY - 2014// TI - Empirical synchronized flow in oversaturated city traffic JO - Physical review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics A1 - Kerner, Boris S. A1 - Hemmerle, Peter A1 - Koller, Micha A1 - Hermanns, Gerhard A1 - Klenov, Sergey L. A1 - Rehborn, Hubert A1 - Schreckenberg, Michael SP - 032810 EP - 032810 VL - 90 IS - 3 N2 - Based on a study of anonymized GPS probe vehicle traces measured by personal navigation devices in vehicles randomly distributed in city traffic, empirical synchronized flow in oversaturated city traffic has been revealed. It turns out that real oversaturated city traffic resulting from speed breakdown in a city in most cases can be considered random spatiotemporal alternations between sequences of moving queues and synchronized flow patterns in which the moving queues do not occur.

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