Reproducibility of Flow–Density Relations in Heavily Congested Flow Based on Individual Vehicle Data

The flow-density relations represent equilibrium relations between flow and density in the stationary state. Using individual vehicle data, this paper extends to heavily congested flow the reproducibility of the flow-density relations found by Cassidy. A new filtering method using standard deviations of traffic variables in a vehicle group built from individual vehicle data is proposed to distinguish the nearly stationary state from the …