Characterization of traffic oscillation propagation under nonlinear car-following laws

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 45 `, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1346-1361

  Li, Xiaopeng ^a   Ouyang, Yanfeng ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Car following law; Describing function; Nonlinear; Traffic oscillation

Indexed keywords

DESCRIBING FUNCTIONS; RESEARCH; TRANSPORTATION;

CAR FOLLOWING; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; NONLINEAR; NONLINEAR CONTROL THEORY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OSCILLATION CHARACTERISTICS; OSCILLATION PHENOMENON; OSCILLATION PROPAGATION;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

AUTOMOBILE; CALIBRATION; DESIGN; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERIODICITY; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

EID: 83555177367     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2011.05.010     Document Type: Article

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