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Crowding Effects in Vehicular Traffic Jay Samuel L. Combinido, May T. Lim* National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines Abstract While the impact of crowding on the diffusive transport of molecules within a cell is widely studied in biology, it has thus far been neglected in traffic systems where bulk behavior is the main concern. Here, we study the effects of crowding due to car density and driving fluctuations on the transport of vehicles. Using a microscopic model for traffic, we found that crowding can push car movement from a superballistic down to a subdiffusive state. The transition is also associated with a change in the shape of the probability distribution of positions from a negatively-skewed normal to an exponential distribution. Moreover, crowding broadens the distribution of cars’ trap times and cluster sizes. At steady state, the subdiffusive state persists only when there is a large variability in car speeds. We further relate our work to prior findings from random walk models of transport in cellular systems. Citation: Combinido JSL, Lim MT (2012) Crowding Effects in Vehicular Traffic. PLoS ONE 7(11): e48151. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048151 Editor: Santo Fortunato, Aalto University, Finland Received March 20, 2012; Accepted September 21, 2012; Published November 5, 2012 Copyright: 2012 Combinido, Lim. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: JSLC is supported by a Department of Science and Technology - Accelerated Science and Technology Human Resource Development Program scholarship. URL: .ph/index.php/scholarship-grants/asthrdp. MTL receive