NTL Record

Title Particle Hopping Models and Traffic Flow Theory
Record ID 82000
Personal Name
Creator
Nagel, Kai
Corporate Creator Los Alamos National Laboratory
Corporate
Contributor
United States. Federal Highway Administration; United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics; United States. Federal Transit Administration; United States. Environmental Protection Agency; Travel Model Improvement Program (U.S.)
Publisher United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
Publication Date 19950814
Language English
Abstract Very simple models of particles hopping on a grid appear too simple to have much similarity to traffic. Yet, some of these models can be proved to generate, in the so-called fluid-dynamical limit, variations of the Lighthill-Whitham theory. For more realistic particle hopping models, the fluid-dynamical limit is not known, but insight can be obtained by observing traffic jam dynamics.
Rosap ID dot:57252
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/57252
TRT Terms Traffic flow theory; Traffic models; Dynamics; Traffic congestion; Car following
Geographical
Coverage
United States
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/82000/82000/82000/laur952908.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository