FROM PARTICLE HOPPING MODELS TO TRAFFIC FLOW THEORY

Very simple models of particles hopping on a grid appear too simple to have much similarity to traffic. Yet, some of these models can be proved to generate, in the so-called fluid-dynamical limit, variations of the Lighthill-Whitham theory. For more realistic particle hopping models, the fluid-dynamical limit is not known, but insight can be obtained by observing traffic jam dynamics.

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  https://doi.org/10.3141/1644-01
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  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/57252
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  http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=FROM+PARTICLE+HOPPING+MODELS+TO+TRAFFIC+FLOW+THEORY&author=K.+Nagel&publication_year=1998
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1644, Traffic Flow Theory: Simulation Models, Macroscopic Flow Relationships, and Flow Estimation and Prediction.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Nagel, K
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 1-9
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1644
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Car following; Dynamics; Traffic congestion; Traffic flow theory
• Old TRIS Terms: Particle hopping models
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I71: Traffic Theory;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00757533
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 030906516X
• Files: NTL, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Dec 14 1998 12:00AM