Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3042–3045 (1998)Gas-Kinetic-Based Traffic Model Explaining Observed Hysteretic Phase TransitionReceived 3 March 1998; revised 6 July 1998; published in the issue dated 5 October 1998 Recently, hysteretic transitions to “synchronized traffic” with high values of both density and traffic flow were observed on German freeways [B. S. Kerner and H. Rehborn, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4030 (1997)]. We propose a macroscopic traffic model based on a gas-kinetic approach that can explain this phase transition. The results suggest a general mechanism for the formation of probably the most common form of congested traffic. © 1998 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3042
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3042
PACS:
89.40.+k, 05.60.+w, 05.70.Fh, 47.55.-t
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