TRAFFIC FLOW THEORY AND CONTROL

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING IS PRESENTED AS THE SCIENCE IT IS, AND PRACTICING TRAFFIC ENGINEERS ARE PROVIDED WITH AN INSIGHT INTO CONTEMPORARY TRAFFIC RESEARCH APPROACHES. THE BOOK IS DESIGNED TO ACCOMMODATE THE MANIFOLD NEEDS OF READERS WITH DIVERGENT BACKGROUNDS, INTERESTS, AND VARYING DEGREES OF MATHEMATICAL SOPHISTICATION. THE BOOK IS ORGANIZED ON FIVE BASES: THE CHRONOLOGICAL PHASES THROUGH WHICH THE TRAFFIC ENGINEERING EFFORT PASSES, THE LOGICAL RESEARCH STEPS, THE PARTS OF TRAFFIC ANALYSES SUCH AS TRAFFIC DEMAND AND HIGHWAY CAPACITY, THE TOOLS OF TRAFFIC ENGINEERING SUCH AS PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS, QUEUEING THEORY, CONTROL THEORY, AND PHYSICAL ANALOGIES; AND THE ELEMENTS OF THE TRAFFIC SYSTEMS INCLUDING THE DRIVER, THE VEHICLE, THE ROAD. ALTHOUGH THE TEXT TAKES THEORY INTO ACCOUNT, IT IS NOT A HIGHLY THEORETICAL BOOK. IT STRESSES THE APPLICATIONS TO TRAFFIC ENGINEERING INTEGRATING EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS, AND STATISTICS AS A MEANS OF DESCRIBING TRAFFIC FLOW. /AUTHOR/

• Corporate Authors:

  McGraw-Hill, Incorporated

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• Authors:
  • Drew, D R
• Publication Date: 1968

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drivers; Highway capacity; Highways; Probability theory; Queuing theory; Traffic control; Traffic engineering; Traffic flow; Traffic flow theory; Vehicles
• Old TRIS Terms: Queueing theory
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00227077
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 467 pp
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 13 2004 6:47PM