Properties of a well-defined macroscopic fundamental diagram for urban traffic

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 605-617

  Geroliminis, Nikolas ^a   Sun, Jie ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterials; Congestion; Hysteresis; Macroscopic modeling; Urban traffic

Indexed keywords

HYSTERESIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTERIALS; CONGESTION; FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAM; MACROSCOPIC FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAM; MACROSCOPIC MODEL; METROPOLITAN AREA; OCCUPANCY MEASURES; URBAN TRAFFIC;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CORRELATION; HYSTERESIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; ROAD TRANSPORT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; URBAN AREA; URBAN TRANSPORT;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANAGAWA; KANTO; YOKOHAMA;

EID: 79951512186     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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