Introduction to Network Traffic Flow Theory: Principles, Concepts, Models, and Methods

by Wen-Long Jin

Overview

Introduction to Network Traffic Flow Theory: Principles, Concepts, Models, and Methods provides a comprehensive introduction to modern theories for modeling, mathematical analysis and traffic simulations in road networks. The book breaks ground, addressing traffic flow theory in a network setting and providing researchers and transportation professionals with a better understanding of how network traffic flows behave, how congestion builds and dissipates, and how to develop strategies to alleviate network traffic congestion. The book also shows how network traffic flow theory is key to understanding traffic estimation, control, management and planning.

Users wills find this to be a great resource on both theory and applications across a wide swath of subjects, including road networks and reduced traffic congestion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128158401
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	04/19/2021
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Wenlong Jin is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Transportation Studies, at the University of California, Irvine, focusing on the study of drivers' individual choice behaviours (trajectories) and collective queueing processes (cumulative flows). His research interests include modeling and analysing dynamic and stationary traffic patterns at bottlenecks in road networks, using junction models, cell transmission models, link transmission models, capacity drop models, and network stationary models. He has published more than 40 journal articles, including in Elsevier’s Transportation Research Part B: Methodological (for which he serves on the Editorial Advisory Board), and Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies.

Table of Contents

Part I. Basics
1. Introduction
2. Representations, variables, and observations
3. Fundamental diagrams

Part II. Link Models
4. The Lighthill-Whitham-Richards model
5. The Cell Transmission Model
6. The Link Transmission Model
7. Queueing models

Part III. Network Models
8. Junction models
9. Network kinematic wave theory
10. Network stationary states and stability
11. Capacity drop models

Part IV. Microscopic models
12. Equivalence between continuum and car-following models
13. Second-order formulation of the LWR model
14. Bounded acceleration models
15. Multilane car-following models
16. Second-order capacity drop model
17. Appendix

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A systematic, comprehensive introduction to the latest theories for traffic flow modeling, mathematical analysis and computer simulations in road networks