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.
1. Chapter 1. Introduction - p. 3 2. Chapter 2. Definitions of variables - p. 13 3. Chapter 3. Basic principles - p. 33 4. Chapter 4. Basic concepts - p. 57 5. Part II: First-order models - p. 72 6. Chapter 5. The Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) model - p. 75 7. Chapter 6. The Cell Transmission Model (CTM) - p. 105 8. Chapter 7. Newell's simplified kinematic wave model - p. 133 9. Chapter 8. The Link Transmission Model (LTM) - p. 151 10. Chapter 9. Newell's simplified car-following model - p. 165 11. Part III: Queueing models - p. 174 12. Chapter 10. The link queue model - p. 177 13. Chapter 11. Point queue model - p. 191 14. Chapter 12. The bathtub model - p. 207 15. Bibliography - p. 243 16. Index - p. 253
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.
1. Chapter 1. Introduction - p. 3 2. Chapter 2. Definitions of variables - p. 13 3. Chapter 3. Basic principles - p. 33 4. Chapter 4. Basic concepts - p. 57 5. Part II: First-order models - p. 72 6. Chapter 5. The Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) model - p. 75 7. Chapter 6. The Cell Transmission Model (CTM) - p. 105 8. Chapter 7. Newell's simplified kinematic wave model - p. 133 9. Chapter 8. The Link Transmission Model (LTM) - p. 151 10. Chapter 9. Newell's simplified car-following model - p. 165 11. Part III: Queueing models - p. 174 12. Chapter 10. The link queue model - p. 177 13. Chapter 11. Point queue model - p. 191 14. Chapter 12. The bathtub model - p. 207 15. Bibliography - p. 243 16. Index - p. 253
