Retaining desirable properties in discretising a travel-time model

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 540-553

  Carey, Malachy ^a   Ge, Y E ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic traffic assignment; FIFO; First in first out property; Link travel time

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DYNAMIC TRAFFIC ASSIGNMENT; FIRST-IN FIRST-OUT PROPERTY; TRAVEL TIME MODEL;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 33846320079     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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