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I would like to thank Michael Schreckenberg, Hubert Rehborn, Craig Davis, Ihor Lubashevsky, Sergey Klenov, Micha Koller, Sven-Eric Molzahn, Dominik Wegerle, and Yildirim Dülgar for many useful comments. I thank our partners for their support in the projects “UR:BAN -- Urban Space: User oriented assistance systems and network management” and “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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Kerner, B.S. (2019). Complex Dynamics of Traffic Management: Introduction. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27737-5_78-3

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