Traffic At the Edge of Chaos (1994)
by
Kai Nagel
,
Steen Rasmussen
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BibTeX
@MISC{Nagel94trafficat,
author = {Kai Nagel and Steen Rasmussen},
title = {Traffic At the Edge of Chaos},
year = {1994}
}
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Abstract
We use a very simple description of human driving behavior to simulate traffic. The regime of maximum vehicle flow in a closed system shows nearcritical behavior, and as a result a sharp decrease of the predictability of travel time. Since Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMSs) tend to drive larger parts of the transportation system towards this regime of maximum flow, we argue that in consequence the traffic system as a whole will be driven closer to criticality, thus making predictions much harder, A simulation of a simplified transportation network supports our argument.







