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Situations in traffic — how quickly they change

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Central European Journal of Physics

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Spatio-temporal correlations of traffic intensity are analyzed employing data collected for the motorway M-30 around Madrid during one week in January 2009. We found that the lifetime of these correlations is the shortest in the evening between 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. This lifetime represents a new indicator for the amount of attention that is demanded by drivers in given traffic conditions.

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  1. Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, PL-30059, Kraków, Poland

    Małgorzata J. Krawczyk & Krzysztof Kułakowski

  2. Sociedad Iberica de Construcciones Electricas, C/Sepúlveda 6, 28108, Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain

    Cristina Beltran Ruiz

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Krawczyk, M.J., Ruiz, C.B. & Kułakowski, K. Situations in traffic — how quickly they change. centr.eur.j.phys. 9, 1452–1457 (2011). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11534-011-0064-x

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