KINETIC THEORY OF VEHICULAR TRAFFIC

THE THEORY OF MULTIPLE-LANE TRAFFIC FLOW IS EXAMINED. A PREDICTION OF THE CHARACTER OF THE TRAFFIC FLOW IS MADE AT ARBITARY DENSITY IN TERMS OF DRIVER BEHAVIOR IN DILUTE, NONINTERACTING TRAFFIC, AND A KINETIC EQUATION IS DERIVED TO DESCRIBE THE SPACE-TIME EVOLUTION OF THE VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION OF CARS. THE ANALOGIES THAT EXIST BETWEEN STATISTICAL PHYSICS AND TRAFFIC HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED IN DEVELOPING A VIABLE THEORY. THE PROBLEM IS FORMULATED AND THE THEORY IS DEVELOPED TO A POINT WHERE THE MEETING OF THEORETICAL CONCEPTS WITH EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS WILL BE FRUITFUL. /AUTHOR/

• Corporate Authors:

  Elsevier Publishing Company, Incorporated

  52 Vanderbilt Avenue
  New York, NY  United States  10017
• Authors:
  • Prigogine, I
  • Herman, R
• Publication Date: 1971

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Drivers; Equations; Forecasting; Kinetics; Traffic flow; Traffic flow theory; Velocity
• Old TRIS Terms: Velocity distribution
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00227320
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 100 pp
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 11 1971 12:00AM