The entropy solutions for the lighthill-whitham-richards traffic flow model with a discontinuous flow-density relationship

Transportation Science

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 511-530

  Lu, Yadong ^a   Wong, S C ^b   Zhang, Mengping ^a   Shu, Chi Wang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discontinuous flow density relationship; Entropy solution; LWR model; Traffic flow; WENOscheme

Indexed keywords

PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; POLYNOMIALS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

DISCONTINUOUS FLOW; ENTROPY SOLUTION; LWR MODEL; TRAFFIC FLOW; WENOSCHEME;

ENTROPY;

EID: 73349090579     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1090.0277     Document Type: Article

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