Application of gas-kinetic theory to modelling mixed traffic of manual and ACC vehicles

Transportmetrica

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 43-60

  Ngoduy, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adaptive cruise control; gas kinetic theory; linear stability; traffic flow dynamics

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION/DECELERATION; ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL VEHICLES; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; GAS KINETIC THEORY; LINEAR STABILITY; MACROSCOPIC MODEL; MICROSCOPIC MODELS; MIXED TRAFFIC; MIXED TRAFFIC FLOW; MULTI CLASS TRAFFIC; MULTI-CLASS; ON-RAMP; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC FLOW CHARACTERISTICS; TRAFFIC FLOW DYNAMICS; TRAFFIC FLOW STABILITY;

KINETIC THEORY OF GASES; KINETICS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; VEHICLES;

ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL;

EID: 84859410880     PISSN: 18128602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18128600903578843     Document Type: Article

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