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Science 2 March 1973:
Vol. 179. no. 4076, pp. 918 - 920
DOI: 10.1126/science.179.4076.918
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Multilane Vehicular Traffic and Adaptive Human Behavior

Robert Herman 1, Tenny Lam 1, and Ilya Prigogine 2

1 General Motors Research Laboratories, Warren, Michigan 48090
2 Université Libre, Bruxelles, Belgium, and Center for Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics, University of Texas, Austin 78712

The parameters in a statistical theory of multiple-lane traffic have been determined from two independent sets of data. The numerical values of the parameters calculated by four different methods of estimation are in essential agreement with one another. The data suggest the important role of adaptive human behavior in determining the characteristics of congested flow.


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A Two-Fluid Approach to Town Traffic.
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