Chain stability in traffic flow with driver reaction delays

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4922-4927

  Sipahi, Rifat ^a   Niculescu, Silviu Iulian ^b  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Discrete delay; Distributed delay; Slinky effects; Stability; Traffic dynamics

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

CAR FOLLOWING MODELS; CONSTANT VELOCITIES; DISCRETE DELAY; DISTRIBUTED DELAYS; MICROSCOPIC MODELING; SLINKY EFFECTS; STABILITY ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC DYNAMICS;

STABILITY;

EID: 52649142806     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2008.4587274     Document Type: Conference Paper

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