“Dipole-layer” effect in dense traffic flow
Physics Letters APublished 1 May 1996
Boris S. Kerner, P. Konhäuser, Martin Schilke
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Abstract
It is shown that in dense traffic flow a localized structure which is surrounded by an initial homogeneous traffic flow can spontaneously appear. This structure has the form of a "dipole-layer", i.e., it consists of a low and high density, following downstream one after another. The formation process, the structure and the parameters of the local "dipole-layer" are investigated.
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