Multivalued fundamental diagrams and stop and go waves for continuum traffic flow equations

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 468-483

  Günther, Marco ^a   Klar, Axel ^b   Materne, Thorsten ^b   Wegener, Raimund ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL MATHEMATICS ITWM   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kinetic derivation; Macroscopic equations; Multivalued fundamental diagram; Phase transitions; Stop and go waves; Traffic flow

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FUNCTIONS; KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBABILITY;

KINETIC DERIVATION; MACROSCOPIC EQUATIONS; MULTIVALUED FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAM; STOP AND GO WAVES; TRAFFIC FLOW;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 2542422934     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139902404700     Document Type: Article

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