Some remarks on macroscopic traffic flow modelling

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 323-329

  Papageorgiou, Markos ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Macroscopic models; Model validation; Traffic flow modelling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

MACROSCOPIC MODELS; MODEL VALIDATION;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 0032092830     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-8564(97)00048-7     Document Type: Article

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