Capacity drop: A comparison between stop-and-go wave and standing queue at lane-drop bottleneck

In freeways, the maximum traffic flow through a bottleneck is usually higher than the outflow of congestion there. This phenomenon is called the capacity drop. In literature, there are considerable debates about the mechanism causing this phenomenon. This paper studies the mechanism by analyzing real life data of two different days. The traffic...

Capacity drop: A comparison between stop-and-go wave and standing queue at lane-drop bottleneck