A qualitative model of cross-lane inhomogeneities in traffic flow

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 188-199

  Guan, Wei ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Homogenous traffic flow; Qualitative modeling; Qualitative reasoning; Traffic flow model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

HOMOGENOUS TRAFFIC FLOW; QUALITATIVE MODELING; QUALITATIVE REASONING; TRAFFIC FLOW MODEL;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 4544372898     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2004.833760     Document Type: Article

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