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SUBMITTER: Loder A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6841661 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Loder Allister A Ambühl Lukas L Menendez Monica M Axhausen Kay W KW
Scientific reports 20191108 1
Traffic in an urban network becomes congested once there is a critical number of vehicles in the network. To improve traffic operations, develop new congestion mitigation strategies, and reduce negative traffic externalities, understanding the basic laws governing the network's critical number of vehicles and the network's traffic capacity is necessary. However, until now, a holistic understanding of this critical point and an empirical quantification of its driving factors has been missing. Her ...[more]