General Kinetic Models for Vehicular Traffic Flows and Monte-Carlo Methods

Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 155-169

  Herty, M ^a   Klar, A ^a   Pareschi, L ^b  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

kinetic equations; Monte Carlo methods; stationary solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962134831     PISSN: 16094840     EISSN: 16099389     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/cmam-2005-0008     Document Type: Article

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