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

Osipov developed a theory of Autosolitons – solitary intrinsic states, which form in a broad class of physical, chemical and biological dissipative systems.

[7] After emigration from Russia to Germany in 1992, Boris Kerner worked for the Daimler company in Stuttgart.

[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] 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.

[24] After his retirement from the Daimler company on 31 January 2013 Prof. Kerner works at the University Duisburg-Essen.

[39][40][41] At the end of 1990's Kerner introduced a new traffic phase, called synchronized flow whose basic feature leads to the nucleation nature of the F → S transition at a highway bottleneck.

In 1998 Kerner found that the well-known empirical phenomenon moving jam "without obvious reason" occurs due to a sequence of F → S → J transitions.

Congested pattern control approach is consistent with the empirical nucleation nature of traffic breakdown.

[66][67] In 2004 Kerner introduced a concept of an autonomous driving vehicle in the framework of the three-phase traffic theory.

[16][17][18][72][page needed] In 2016 Kerner developed an application of the breakdown minimization principle called network throughput maximization approach.