THE THEORY OF ROAD TRAFFIC FLOW

THE PREFACE NOTES THAT THIS IS THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE TEXTBOOK ON THE SUBJECT TO BE PUBLISHED IN BRITAIN. IT IS INTENDED FOR STATISTICIANS, APPLIED MATHEMATICIANS AND ENGINEERS SPECIALIZING IN THE TRAFFIC FIELD. THE APPROACH IS THEORETICAL BUT THE NEEDS OF THE PRACTICING ENGINEER ARE ALSO CONSIDERED. THE CHAPTER HEADINGS ARE AS FOLLOWS' /1/ INTRODUCTION, /2/ THE FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAM OF TRAFFIC I, /3/ DYNAMICAL THEORIES' FOLLOW-THE-LEADER MODELS OF TRAFFIC FLOW, /4/ KINEMATIC THEORIES AND FLUID ANALOGIES, /5/ THE FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAM OF TRAFFIC II, /6/ FROM TRAFFIC SIGNALS TO TRAFFIC CYBERNETICS, /7/ STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS AND QUEUEING THEORY, /8/ THE STOCHASTIC APPROACH TO STATIC DELAY PROBLEMS, /9/ SIMULATION OF TRAFFIC PROBLEMS, AND /10/ ACCIDENT STATISTICS. SUBJECT AND AUTHOR INDEXES ARE APPENDED. /RRL/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Monograph ON APPLIED PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS, 178 PP,
• Corporate Authors:

  Methuen & Co. Ltd, London /UK

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• Authors:
  • Ashton, W D
• Publication Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crashes; Cybernetics; Dynamics; Highways; Kinetics; Mathematical models; Queuing theory; Simulation; Statistical sampling; Statistics; Stochastic processes; Theory; Traffic delays; Traffic flow; Traffic flow theory; Traffic signals
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Old TRIS Terms: Queueing theory
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00227042
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Road Research Laboratory /UK
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 13 2004 6:47PM