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We have already noted in Chaps. 1 and 2 that the breakdown phenomenon has empirically been studied by many scientific groups in various countries (e.g., [30,37,58,59,61–79,182]). In three-phase traffic theory, the breakdown phenomenon is explained by a first-order local F→S transition [205, 208]. A qualitative theory of this phenomenon has been discussed in Chap. 5.
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Kerner, B.S. (2004). Empirical Breakdown Phenomenon: Phase Transition from Free Flow to Synchronized Flow. In: The Physics of Traffic. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-40986-1_10
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