Traffic Flow Theory: Characteristics, Experimental Methods, and Numerical Techniques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 012804134X ISBN 13: 9780128041345

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2015

Creating Traffic Models is a challenging task because some of their interactions and system components are difficult to adequately express in a mathematical form. Traffic Flow Theory: Characteristics, Experimental Methods, and Numerical Techniques provide traffic engineers with the necessary methods and techniques for mathematically representing traffic flow. The book begins with a rigorous but easy to understand exposition of traffic flow characteristics including Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and traffic sensing technologies.

• Includes worked out examples and cases to illustrate concepts, models, and theories
• Provides modeling and analytical procedures for supporting different aspects of traffic analyses for supporting different flow models
• Carefully explains the dynamics of traffic flow over time and space

From the Back Cover:

Concise and readable, Traffic Flow Theory: Characteristics, Experimental Methods and Numerical Techniques incorporates the most current developments in traffic flow modeling techniques for mathematically expressing flow characteristics. The book begins with a rigorous but easy to understand exposition of traffic flow characteristics including Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and traffic sensing technologies. This is followed by self-contained chapters involving traffic flow modeling on a macroscopic, microscopic and picoscopic level. The book’s objective is to establish a theoretical foundation for traffic modeling and simulation at multiple scales, seamlessly within a single system.

About the Author:

University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering