Frascaria, Dario; Olver, Neil; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2020
Hypercongestion - the phenomenon that higher traffic densities can reduce throughput - is well understood at the link … level, but has also been observed in a macroscopic form at the level of traffic networks; for instance, in morning rush …-hour traffic into a downtown core. In this paper, we show that macroscopic hypercongestion can occur as a purely emergent effect of …