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Still Flowing: Approaches to Traffic Flow and Traffic Jam Modeling

Kai Nagel
Kai Nagel
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Department of Computer Science, ETH Zentrum, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Peter Wagner
Peter Wagner
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German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Transportation Research, Rutherfordstrasse 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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Richard Woesler
Richard Woesler
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German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Transportation Research, Rutherfordstrasse 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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Kai Nagel

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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Department of Computer Science, ETH Zentrum, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland

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Peter Wagner

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German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Transportation Research, Rutherfordstrasse 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany

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Richard Woesler

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German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Transportation Research, Rutherfordstrasse 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany

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Published Online:1 Oct 2003https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.51.5.681.16755

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Volume 51, Issue 5

September-October 2003

Pages 681-838

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Received:March 01, 2001
Accepted:January 01, 2003
Published Online:October 01, 2003

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Kai Nagel, Peter Wagner, Richard Woesler, (2003) Still Flowing: Approaches to Traffic Flow and Traffic Jam Modeling. Operations Research 51(5):681-710.

https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.51.5.681.16755

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