Limit of a collection of dynamical systems: An application to modeling the flow of traffic

Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1381-1399

  Darbha, Swaroop ^a   Rajagopal, K R ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Intelligent transportation systems; Limit of a collection of dynamical systems; Spatially discrete traffic flow model; Traffic flow modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036811640     PISSN: 02182025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218202502002161     Document Type: Article

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