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In highway traffic one observes metastabiltiy in a certain range of the traffic density. Perturbations of a large enough amplitude develop into jams or stop-andgo waves. Observations and simulations indicate that the latter behave like solitary waves. Current traffic control systems based on varying speed limits cannot always prevent the creation of stop-and-go waves nor can they damp them. We have designed a nonlinear controller which is able to extinguish stop-and-go waves; its performance is demonstrated within simulations using a realistic traffic model. The construction is based on a transformation to a coordinate system moving with the propagation speed of the stop-and-go waves.
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Sollacher, R., Lenz, H. (2000). Nonlinear Control of Stop-and-Go Traffic. In: Helbing, D., Herrmann, H.J., Schreckenberg, M., Wolf, D.E. (eds) Traffic and Granular Flow ’99. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59751-0_28
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