A method to account for non-steady state conditions in measuring traffic hysteresis

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 34, Issue , 2013, Pages 138-147

  Ahn, Soyoung ^a   Vadlamani, Sravani ^a   Laval, Jorge ^b  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Car following behavior; Traffic hysteresis; Traffic oscillations

Indexed keywords

TRANSPORTATION;

CAR-FOLLOWING BEHAVIOR; FREEWAY TRAFFIC FLOWS; KINEMATIC WAVE MODELS; MEASUREMENT METHODS; NON-STEADY-STATE CONDITIONS; STOP-AND-GO; VARIABLE WAVE SPEED;

HYSTERESIS;

HYSTERESIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

EID: 84880325039     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2011.05.020     Document Type: Article

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