Nagai, Ryoichi; Nagatani, Takashi; Yamada, Akio - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 355 (2005) 2, pp. 530-550
A multi-phase traffic model is presented to take into account the complex motion of vehicles. The multi-phase model is one of the extended optimal velocity model. The optimal velocity (OV) function is modified to have multi turning points. The original OV model with a single turning point...