Exact results for car accidents in a traffic model
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- 24 July 1998
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 31 (29) , 6167-6173
Abstract
Within the framework of a recent model for car accidents on single-lane highway traffic, we study analytically the probability of the occurrence of car accidents. Exact results are obtained. Various scaling behaviours are observed. The linear dependence of the occurrence of car accidents on density is understood as the dominance of a single velocity in the distribution.Keywords
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