title: Empirical synchronized flow in oversaturated city traffic.
abstract: Based on a study of anonymized GPS probe vehicle traces measured by personal navigation devices in vehicles randomly distributed in city traffic, empirical synchronized flow in oversaturated city traffic has been revealed. It turns out that real oversaturated city traffic resulting from speed breakdown in a city in most cases can be considered random spatiotemporal alternations between sequences of moving queues and synchronized flow patterns in which the moving queues do not occur.
authors.affiliation: Physik von Transport und Verkehr, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 47048 Duisburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Boris S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Kerner
authors.affiliation: Daimler AG, RD/RTF, HPC: 059-X832, 71063 Sindelfingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hemmerle
authors.affiliation: Daimler AG, RD/RTF, HPC: 059-X832, 71063 Sindelfingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Micha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koller
authors.affiliation: Physik von Transport und Verkehr, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 47048 Duisburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Gerhard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hermanns
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 141700 Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, Russia.
authors.forename: Sergey L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Klenov
authors.affiliation: Daimler AG, RD/RTF, HPC: 059-X832, 71063 Sindelfingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Hubert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rehborn
authors.affiliation: Physik von Transport und Verkehr, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 47048 Duisburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schreckenberg
mesh_terms: D002947:Cities; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009038:Motion; D011336:Probability; D014186:Transportation