The Physics of Traffic: Empirical Freeway Pattern Features, Engineering Applications, and Theory

by Boris S. Kerner

Book Overview

This monograph is devoted to a new approach to an old field of scientific investigation, freeway traffic research. Freeway traffic is an extremely complex spatiotemporal nonlinear dynamic process. For this reason, it is not surprising that empirical traffic pattern features have only recently been sufficiently understood. Such empirical features are in serious conflict with almost all earlier theoretical and model results. Consequently, the author...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540207163
• ISBN13: 9783540207160
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 682 Pages
• Weight: 2.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"