arXiv · patt-sol/9909005
Multi-Bunch Solutions of Differential-Difference Equation for Traffic Flow
Abstract
Newell-Whitham type car-following model with hyperbolic tangent optimal velocity function in a one-lane circuit has a finite set of the exact solutions for steady traveling wave, which expressed by elliptic theta function. Each solution of the set describes a density wave with definite number of car-bunches in the circuit. By the numerical simulation, we observe a transition process from a uniform flow to the one-bunch analytic solution, which seems to be an attractor of the system. In the process, the system shows a series of cascade transitions visiting the configurations closely similar to the higher multi-bunch solutions in the set.
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Ken Nakanishi. 1999-09-05. Multi-Bunch Solutions of Differential-Difference Equation for Traffic Flow. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.62.3349
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