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Overview of Freeway Traffic Theories and Models: Fundamental Diagram Approach

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A huge number of models have been developed to explain empirical spatiotemporal traffic dynamics (e.g. , [1–11,13–18, 20, 21, 42–46, 362–367, 370–395, 397–401,420–422,436–465]; see also references in the reviews by Gartner et al. (eds.) [31] , Wolf [32] , Chowdhury et al. [33] , Helbing [34, 35] , Nagatani [36], Nagel et al. [38]).

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Kerner, B.S. (2004). Overview of Freeway Traffic Theories and Models: Fundamental Diagram Approach. In: The Physics of Traffic. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-40986-1_3

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