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Latent Heat of a Traffic Model

In: Traffic and Granular Flow '11

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  • Hans Weber

    (Luleå University of Technology, Department of Physics)

  • Reinhard Mahnke

    (Rostock University, Institute of Physics)

Abstract

We have studied the optimal velocity model (Bando et al., Jpn J Indust Appl Math 11:203, 1994; Phys Rev E 51:1035, 1995; J Phys I Fr 5:1389, 1995) for highway traffic. On a microscopic level, traffic flow is described by Bando’s optimal velocity model in terms of accelerating and decelerating forces. We define an intrinsic energy of the model. We find a latent heat when the system undergoes a phase transition from single phase traffic (free flow) to a phase that contains two different, a dense and a dilute phase (congested or stop–and–go flow). Here we report on properties of the latent heat.

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  • Hans Weber & Reinhard Mahnke, 2013. "Latent Heat of a Traffic Model," Springer Books, in: Valery V. Kozlov & Alexander P. Buslaev & Alexander S. Bugaev & Marina V. Yashina & Andreas Schadsch (ed.), Traffic and Granular Flow '11, edition 127, pages 57-62, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-39669-4_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39669-4_6
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