A porous flow approach to modeling heterogeneous traffic in disordered systems

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 45 `, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1331-1345

  Nair, Rahul ^a   Mahmassani, Hani S ^b   Miller Hooks, Elise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuum model; Disordered systems; Heterogeneous traffic

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; POROUS MATERIALS;

CONTINUUM MODELING; DISORDERED SYSTEM; FINITE DIFFERENCE APPROXIMATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS TRAFFIC; MICROSCOPIC LEVELS; PASSENGER CAR EQUIVALENTS; PORE SPACE DISTRIBUTION; SPEED-DENSITY RELATIONSHIPS;

MANEUVERABILITY;

AUTOMOBILE; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 83555179226     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

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