CONGESTION ON MULTILANE HIGHWAYS

This paper presents a new model for traffic on multilane freeways. The model incorporates both equilibrium curves and a simple switching mechanism that allows cars to transit from one equilibrium curve to the other. This switching mechanism, when combined with the continuity equation, produces relaxation or self-excited oscillations in the system, and these oscillations are the focus of the research conducted herein.

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  Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

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• Authors:
  • Greenberg, J M
  • Klar, A
  • Rascle, M
• Publication Date: 2003-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 818-833
• Serial:
  • SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
  • Volume: 63
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • ISSN: 0036-1399

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Excitation; Freeways; Highway traffic control; Multilane highways; Traffic engineering; Traffic equilibrium; Traffic models
• Uncontrolled Terms: Traffic oscillations
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00963220
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 16 2003 12:00AM