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The automobile is a pervasive feature of modern technological societies despite its accompanying problems of pollution, accidents, and congestion. In the last 25 years a vast amount of literature has been published which we might classify as “traffic science.” This science has attempted to understand through modeling and data gathering the traffic processes and how to modify, optimize, and control them.
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Baker, R.L. (1983). Car-Following Models. In: Braun, M., Coleman, C.S., Drew, D.A. (eds) Differential Equation Models. Modules in Applied Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5427-0_12
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