Now he thinks he has found it: a set of fundamental patterns of traffic flow that when identified on a particular road, can be used to create a phase diagram of future traffic states.

II. A Theory of Traffic Flow on Long Crowded Roads, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 229, No. 1178 (May 10, 1955), pp. 317 ... and is the ...