Physics of Traffic

Project

Mathematical Society of Traffic Flow
Mathematical Society of Traffic Flow (in Japanese)
Traffic Jam Experiment
[1] "Traffic jams without bottlenecks", New J. Phys. 10 (2008) 033001
[2] "Metastability in the formation of an experimental traffic jam", New J. Phys. 11 (2009) 083025
Data file of traffic experiment
Movie of "Shockwave traffic jams recreated for first time"(jump to youtube)
Dome Experiment
[3] "Phase transition in traffic jam experiment on a circuit", New J. Phys. 15 (2013) 103034
[4] "Quantitative explanation of circuit experiments and real traffic using the optimal velocity model", New J. Phys. 18 (2016) 043040
[5] "Characterizing and distinguishing free and jammed traffic flows from the distribution and correlation of experimental speed data", New Journal of Physics 18 (2016) 083022
Data file of dome experiment (900MB)
Data of car trajectory (12MB)