12 Facts About Boris Kerner

Boris S Kerner was born on 1947 and is a German physicist and civil engineer who created three phase traffic theory.

Boris Kerner was born in Moscow, Soviet Union in 1947 and graduated from the Moscow Technical University MIREA in 1972.

Between 2000 and 2013 Boris Kerner was a head of a scientific research field Traffic at the Daimler company.

In 2011 Boris Kerner was awarded with the degree Professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany.

One of the main results of Boris Kerner's theory is that traffic breakdown at a highway bottleneck is a random phase transition from free flow to synchronized flow that occurs in a metastable state of free flow at a highway bottleneck.

Therefore, Boris Kerner's synchronized flow traffic phase can be used synonymously with the term three-phase traffic theory.

In 2011 Boris Kerner introduced the breakdown minimization principle that is devoted to control and optimization of traffic and transportation networks while keeping the minimum of the probability of the occurrence of traffic congestion in a network.

Rather than a mathematical model of traffic flow, Boris Kerner's three-phase traffic theory is a qualitative traffic flow theory that consists of several hypotheses.

In 2004 Boris Kerner introduced a concept of an autonomous driving vehicle in the framework of the three-phase traffic theory.

Boris Kerner argues there is a new paradigm of traffic and transportation science following from the empirical nucleation nature of traffic breakdown and that three-phase traffic theory changes the meaning of stochastic highway capacity as follows.

In 2016 Boris Kerner developed an application of the breakdown minimization principle called network throughput maximization approach.

In 2016 Boris Kerner introduced a measure of a traffic or transportation network called network capacity.