2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/83330In the optimal velocity model with a time lag, we show that there appear multiple exact solutions in some ranges of car density, describing a uniform flow, a stable and an unstable congested flows. This establishes the presence of subcritical Hopf bifurcations. Our analytic results have far-reaching implications for traffic flows such as hysteresis phenomena associated with discontinuous transitions between uniform and congested flows.revtex, 4 pages, 3 figuresPattern Formation and Solitonstext