Traffic jams without bottlenecks—experimental evidence for the physical mechanism of the formation of a jam

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Yuki Sugiyama et al 2008 New J. Phys. 10 033001 doi:10.1088/1367-2630/10/3/033001

Traffic jams without bottlenecks—experimental evidence for the physical mechanism of the formation of a jam

Yuki Sugiyama^1,10, Minoru Fukui², Macoto Kikuchi³, Katsuya Hasebe⁴, Akihiro Nakayama⁵, Katsuhiro Nishinari^6,7, Shin-ichi Tadaki⁸ and Satoshi Yukawa⁹

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sugiyama@phys.cs.is.nagoya-u.ac.jp

¹ Department of Complex Systems Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
² Nakanihon Automotive College, Sakahogi 505-0077, Japan
³ Cybermedia Center, Osaka University, Toyonaka 560-0043, Japan
⁴ Aichi University, Miyoshi 470-0296, Japan
⁵ Faculty of Science and Technology, Meijo University, Nagoya 468-8502, Japan
⁶ Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo 113-8656, Japan
⁷ PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency
⁸ Computer and Network Center, Saga University, Saga 840-8502, Japan
⁹ Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka 560-0043, Japan
¹⁰ Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed.

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