Single-vehicle data of highway traffic: Microscopic description of traffic phases
Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topicsPublished 23 May 2002Open access
Wolfgang Knospe, Ludger Santen, Andreas Schadschneider, Michael Schreckenberg
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A detailed analysis of single-vehicle data is presented, which sheds some light on the microscopic interaction of the vehicles and resolves some open questions concerning the time-headway distribution.
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We present a detailed analysis of single-vehicle data, which sheds some light on the microscopic interaction of the vehicles. Besides the analysis of free flow and synchronized traffic the data sets especially provide information about wide jams that persist for a long time. The data have been collected at a location far away from ramps and in the absence of speed limits, which allows a comparison with idealized traffic simulations. We also resolve some open questions concerning the time-headway distribution.
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