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Transportation engineering

a theory holding that congested traffic splits into synchronized flow and wide moving jams, rather than a single congested state.

In transportation engineering, three-phase traffic theory refers to a theory holding that congested traffic splits into synchronized flow and wide moving jams, rather than a single congested state. This meaning comes from Kerner (1997) in Physical Review Letters.[1]

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References

Kerner, B. S., & Rehborn, H. (1997). Experimental Properties of Phase Transitions in Traffic Flow. Physical Review Letters, 79(20), 4030-4033. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.79.4030

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