A mechanism to describe the formation and propagation of stop-and-go waves in congested freeway traffic

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1928, 2010, Pages 4519-4541

  Laval, Jorge A ^a   Leclercq, Ludovic ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Kinematic wave model; Microscopic traffic flow models; Stop and go waves

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS; METADATA; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

DRIVER BEHAVIOUR; FREEWAY TRAFFIC; SIMULATION RESULT; STOP-AND-GO WAVES; TRAFFIC FLOW MODELS; TRAJECTORY DATA; WAVE MODELS;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 77958070463     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0138     Document Type: Article

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