2009 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Conclusions and Outlook
Author : Boris S. Kerner
Published in: Introduction to Modern Traffic Flow Theory and Control
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Freeway traffic flow can be free or congested. There are two phases in congested traffic, synchronized flow and wide moving jams. Thus there are three traffic phases: 1. Free flow. 2. Synchronized flow. 3. Wide moving jam. The synchronized flow and wide moving jam traffic phases are defined through spatiotemporal empirical criteria associated with propagation characteristics of the downstream fronts of these phases.