Authorities in both traffic engineering and driver behaviour have empirical evidence that drivers' behaviour differs when journeying in free moving traffic or stop and go situations. Catastrophe theory provides a unified approach to explain the sudden change in traffic stream behaviour. In addition, the theory indicates that ranges of traffic break‐down may be determined from a suitable mathematical description of the surface and the resulting cusp‐catastrophe.
Traffic congestion catastrophes
Transportation Planning and Technology ; 11 , 1 ; 19-25
1986-06-01
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