Kim, Kwangho; Cassidy, Michael J. - In: Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 46 (2012) 9, pp. 1260-1272
A reason is unveiled for the time-varying pattern in discharge flow that is commonly observed at freeway bottlenecks. We hypothesize that four known effects in freeway traffic can interact upstream of a bottleneck in ways that trigger periodic bursts in its discharge flow. Repeated observations...