TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1986//
TI  - Traffic congestion catastrophes
JO  - Transportation planning and technology
A1  - Navin, Francis P. D.
SP  - 19
EP  - 25
VL  - 11
IS  - 1
N2  - Authorities in both traffic engineering and driver behaviour have empirical evidence that drivers' behaviour differs when journeying in free moving traffic or stop and go situations. Catastrophe theory provides a unified approach to explain the sudden change in traffic stream behaviour. In addition, the theory indicates that ranges of traffic break?down may be determined from a suitable mathematical description of the surface and the resulting cusp?catastrophe.<p /> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0308-1060
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03081068608717327
ID  - ref1
ER  -