AuthorKessels, Femke. author. Author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
TitleTraffic Flow Modelling [electronic resource] : Introduction to Traffic Flow Theory Through a Genealogy of Models / by Femke Kessels
ImprintCham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019
Edition 1st ed. 2019
Connect tohttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78695-7
Descript XVI, 130 p. 59 illus., 7 illus. in color. online resource

SUMMARY

This book introduces readers to the main traffic flow modelling approaches and discusses their features and applications. It provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge review of traffic flow models, from their roots in the 1930s to the latest developments in the field. In addition, it presents problem sets that offer readers further insights into the models and hands-on experience with simulation approaches. The simulations used in the exercises can be built upon for readers’ own research or other applications. The models discussed in this book are applied to describe, predict and control traffic flows on roads with the aid of rapid and accurate estimations of current and future states. The book shows how these models are developed, what their chief characteristics are, and how they can be effectively employed


CONTENT

Introduction to traffic flow modelling -- The fundamental diagram -- Microscopic models -- Macroscopic models -- Numerical methods for continuum models -- Mesoscopic models -- Conclusion: convergence versus branching out -- Answers to selected problems


SUBJECT

  1. Operations research
  2. Business logistics
  3. Engineering economy
  4. Operations Research/Decision Theory. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/521000
  5. Logistics. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/519020
  6. Engineering Economics
  7. Organization
  8. Logistics
  9. Marketing. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/T22016
  10. Operations Research
  11. Management Science. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/M26024