AN INTRODUCTION TO TRAFFIC FLOW THEORY

RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO TRAFFIC FLOW THEORY ARE PRESENTED IN A RELATED MANNER AND WITH A CONSISTENT SET OF NOTATIONS' HYDRODYNAMIC APPROACHES PART I, L. A. PIPES PART II ON KINEMATIC WAVES' A THEORY OF TRAFFIC FLOW ON LONG CROWDED ROADS, M. J. LIGHTHILL AND G. B. WHITHAM CAR FOLLOWING AND ACCELERATION NOISE, E. W. MONTROLL AND R. B. POTTS QUEUEING THEORY APPROACHES, D. E. CLEVELAND AND D. G. CAPELLE SIMULATION OF TRAFFIC FLOW, D. L. GERLOUGH SOME EXPERIMENTS AND APPLICATIONS, R. S. FOOTE.

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• Publication Date: 1964

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 149 p.
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 79
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Acceleration (Mechanics); Applications; Experiments; Following distance; Hydrodynamics; Kinetics; Noise; Queuing theory; Traffic flow theory; Traffic simulation
• Old TRIS Terms: Following distance (Of vehicles); Queueing theory
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Operations and Traffic Management; Research;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00226996
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: May 21 2001 12:00AM