Admissibility of a wide cluster solution in "anisotropic" higher-order traffic flow models

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 562-573

  Xu, Rui Yue ^a   Zhang, Peng ^a   Dai, Shi Qiang ^a   Wong, S C ^b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Aw and Rascle model; Hyperbolic conservation law; Rankine Hugoniot condition; Shock wave; Wide cluster

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHOCK WAVES;

AW AND RASCLE MODELS; HYPERBOLIC CONSERVATION LAW; RANKINE-HUGONIOT CONDITIONS; WIDE CLUSTERS;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 42549147496     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/06066641X     Document Type: Article

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