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Acknowledgments

We thank our partners for their support in the project “MEC-View – Object detection for automated driving based on Mobile Edge Computing,”, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy.

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    Boris S. Kerner

  2. Department of Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow Region, Russia

    Sergey L. Klenov

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Kerner, B.S., Klenov, S.L. (2018). Traffic Breakdown, Mathematical Probabilistic Approaches to. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27737-5_558-3

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