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From heterogeneous microscopic traffic flow models to macroscopic models

Analysis of PDEs 2019-07-05 v1

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to derive rigorously macroscopic traffic flow models from microscopic models. More precisely, for the microscopic models, we consider follow-the-leader type models with different types of drivers and vehicles which are distributed randomly on the road. After a rescaling, we show that the cumulative distribution function converge to the solution of a macroscopic model. We also make the link between this macroscopic model and the so-called LWR model.

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@article{arxiv.1907.02310,
  title  = {From heterogeneous microscopic traffic flow models to macroscopic models},
  author = {Pierre Cardaliaguet and Nicolas Forcadel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.02310},
  year   = {2019}
}
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