Hysteresis phenomena of a macroscopic fundamental diagram in freeway networks

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue , 2011, Pages 213-228

  Geroliminis, Nikolas ^a   Sun, Jie ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion; Freeways; Macroscopic fundamental diagram; Traffic hysteresis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960089308     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.04.515     Document Type: Conference Paper

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