Hyperbolic phase transitions in traffic flow

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 708-721

  Colombo, Rinaldo M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hyperbolic conservation laws; Hyperbolic systems; Macroscopic vehicular traffic model; Partial differential equations; Phase transitions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

RIEMANN PROBLEM;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 0038443911     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139901393184     Document Type: Article

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