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Current or historic traffic states are essential input to advanced traveler information, dynamic traffic management, and model predictive control systems. As traffic states are usually not perfectly measured and are everywhere, they need to be estimated from local and noisy sensor data. One of the most widely applied estimation methods is the Lighthill-Whitham and Richards (LWR) model with an extended...