A Power Law for the Duration of High-Flow States in Heterogeneous Traffic Flows

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dc.creatorHelbing, Dirk
dc.creatorTilch, Benno
dc.date2008-07-23
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dc.descriptionWe study the duration of "high-flow states" in freeway traffic, defined as the time periods for which traffic flows exceed a given flow threshold. Our empirical data are surprisingly well represented by a power law. Moreover, the power law exponent is approximately 2, in dependently of the chosen flow threshold. In order to explain this discovery, we investigate a simple theoretical model of heterogeneous traffic with overtaking maneuvers, which is able to reproduce both, the empirical power law and its exponent.
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dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3710
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3710
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/165580
dc.subjectPhysics and Society
dc.titleA Power Law for the Duration of High-Flow States in Heterogeneous Traffic Flows
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