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Phys. Rev. A 46, R6124 - R6127 (1992)

Self-organization and a dynamical transition in traffic-flow models

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Ofer Biham and A. Alan Middleton
Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244

Dov Levine
Department of Physics, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel

Rapid Communication Received 2 June 1992

A simple model that describes traffic flow in two dimensions is studied. A sharp jamming transition is found that separates between the low-density dynamical phase in which all cars move at maximal speed and the high-density jammed phase in which they are all stopped. Self-organization effects in both phases are studied and discussed.


©1992 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.46.R6124
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.46.R6124
PACS: 02.70.+d, 05.70.Ln, 64.60.Cn, 89.40.+k

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