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phantom traffic jam: a standalone construct

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Transportation engineering

a traffic jam that forms spontaneously from small fluctuations in dense traffic, even without any bottleneck.

In transportation engineering, phantom traffic jam refers to a traffic jam that forms spontaneously from small fluctuations in dense traffic, even without any bottleneck. This meaning comes from Sugiyama (2008) in New Journal of Physics.[1]

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References

Sugiyama, Y., Fukui, M., Kikuchi, M., Hasebe, K., Nakayama, A., Nishinari, K., Tadaki, S., & Yukawa, S. (2008). Traffic jams without bottlenecks: experimental evidence for the physical mechanism of the formation of a jam. New Journal of Physics, 10(3), 033001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/10/3/033001

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