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Table 1 List of Symbols and Description

From: Scaling law of real traffic jams under varying travel demand

Symbol

Description

Symbol

Description

S

Cluster size

\(\alpha _{S} \)

Scaling exponent of S

T

Recovery Duration

\(\alpha _{T} \)

Scaling exponent of T

M

Total daily travel demand

\(S_{\text{total}} \)

Total number of cluster size

N

Daily number of jammed clusters

V

Travel demand represented by vehicles on the road

C

The total number of congested roads

γ

Scaling exponent of C

k

Normalization constant of C

F

Number of congested roads due to diffusion

f

Number of newly-added diffusive congested roads

\(\beta _{f} \)

Scaling exponent of f

I

Number of spontaneously generated congested roads

\(\beta _{I} \)

Scaling exponent of I

R

Number of dissipating roads

\(\beta _{R} \)

Scaling exponent of R