Nagai, Ryoichi; Onouchi, Tunetoshi; Nagatani, Takashi - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 354 (2005) C, pp. 571-581
We study the transformation of a traveling jam with the pulse form in the single-lane traffic flow by using the optimal velocity model. The jam propagates with changing the initial form. It is shown that the pulse jam at the initial stage changes to the three types of nonlinear waves, appearing...