Chakrabarti, Bikas K. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 372 (2006) 1, pp. 162-166
We apply the equal load-sharing fiber bundle model of fracture failure in composite materials to model the traffic failure in a system of parallel road network in a city. For some special distributions of traffic handling capacities (thresholds) of the roads, the critical behavior of the jamming...