Komada, Kazuhito; Masukura, Shuichi; Nagatani, Takashi - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 388 (2009) 14, pp. 2880-2894
We study the effect of gravitational force upon traffic flow on a highway with sag, uphill, and downhill. We extend the optimal velocity model to take into account the gravitational force which acts on vehicles as an external force. We study the traffic states and jamming transitions induced by...