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While macroscopic models for single or multi-lane traffic flow are well established, these models are not applicable to the dynamics and characteristics of disordered traffic which is characterized by widely different types of vehicles and…
In this work, we investigate the generalized bathtub model, a nonlocal transport equation for describing network trip flows served by privately operated vehicles inside a road network. First, we establish the well-posedness of the…
In vehicle traffic networks, congestion on one outgoing link of a diverging junction often impedes flow to other outgoing links, a phenomenon known as the first-in-first-out (FIFO) property. Simplified traffic models that do not account for…
This technical note concerns the dynamics of FIFO-diverging junctions in compartmental models for traffic networks. Many strong results on the dynamical behavior of such traffic networks rely on monotonicity of the underlying dynamics. In…
Recently different formulations of the first-order Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) model have been identified in different coordinates and state variables. However, there exists no systematic method to convert higher-order continuum models…
A simple macroscopic model for the vehicular traffic flow with hysteresis is proposed. The model includes drivers' hysteresis behavior into the classical Lighthill-Whitham-Richard (LWR) model. One novelty of the model is how the hysteresis…
In this study, we present a unified framework for modeling network trip flows with general distributions of trip distances, including negative exponential, constant, and regularly sorting trip distances studied in the literature. In…
In this article, we investigate theoretical and numerical properties of the first-order Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) traffic flow model with time delay. Since standard results from the literature are not directly applicable to the…
This article deals with the modeling for an individual car path through a road network, where the dynamics is driven by a coupled system of ordinary and partial differential equations. The network is characterized by bounded buffers at…
We show how to view the standard Follow-the-Leader (FtL) model as a numerical method to compute numerically the solution of the Lighthill--Whitham--Richards (LWR) model for traffic flow. As a result we offer a simple proof that FtL models…
When modeling vehicular traffic flow on highway networks via macroscopic models, suitable coupling conditions at the network nodes are crucial. Frequently, the evolution of traffic flow on each network edge is described in a lane-averaged…
The Aw-Rascle-Zhang (ARZ) model can be interpreted as a generalization of the first order Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) model, possessing a family of fundamental diagram curves, rather than a single one. We investigate to which extent…
We study vehicular traffic on a road with multiple lanes and dense, unidirectional traffic following the traditional Lighthill-Whitham-Richards model where the velocity in each lane depends only on the density in the same lane. The model…
Efficient and exact algorithms are important for performing fast and accurate traffic network simulations with macroscopic traffic models. In this paper, we extend the semi-analytical Lax-Hopf algorithm in order to compute link inflows and…
Traditionally, the Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) models for homogeneous and inhomogeneous roads have been analyzed in flux-density space with the fundamental diagram of the flux-density relation. In this paper, we present a new framework…
We study a generalized Follow-the-Leader model where the driver considers the position of an arbitrary but finite number of vehicles ahead, as well as the position of the vehicle directly behind the driver. It is proved that this model…
Macroscopic traffic models are necessary for simulation and study of traffic's complex macro-scale dynamics, and are often used by practitioners for road network planning, integrated corridor management, and other applications. These models…
This paper is concerned with highway traffic estimation using traffic sensing data, in a Lagrangian-based modeling framework. We consider the Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) model (Lighthill and Whitham, 1955; Richards, 1956) in…
Traffic control is at the core of research in transportation engineering because it is one of the best practices for reducing traffic congestion. It has been shown in recent years that the traffic control problem involving…
We propose a macroscopic modeling framework for a network of roads and multi-commodity traffic. The proposed framework is based on the Lighthill-Whitham-Richards kinematic wave theory; more precisely, on its discretization, the Cell…