Kerner and Konhäuser study moving jam dynamics first discovered in 1993 in Ref. 1. In light of their previous work, a new lattice hydrodynamic model is presented with consideration of the effect of multiple optimal current difference. To investigate the influences of new consideration on traffic jams, the linear stability analysis of the new model is conducted by employing the linear stability theory. Theoretical analysis result shows that the new consideration can stabilize traffic flow. By means of nonlinear analysis method, a modified Korteweg–deVries (mKdV) equation near the critical point is constructed and solved. The propagation behavior of traffic jam can thus be described by the kink–antikink soliton solution for the mKdV equation. Numerical simulation result shows that the effect of the multiple optimal current differences can suppress the emergence of traffic jams and the result is in good agreement with the analytical results.
