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Science 11 December 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5396, pp. 2001 - 2003
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5396.2001
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Perspectives

TRAFFIC THEORY:
Jams, Waves, and Clusters

Dirk Helbing and Martin Treiber

One thing is certain--the world's roadways are not getting less congested. Physicists have been taking a glance at traffic jams recently, in an effort to learn something about the underlying behavior of a particularly familiar many-body system: the modern multilane superhighway. In their Perspective, Helbing and Treiber describe current work in modeling traffic flow as a fluid. The insights gained may one day aid in traffic management.

The authors are at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57/III, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany. E-mail: helbing{at}theo2.physik.uni-stuttgart.de

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