Stochastic Evolutions of Dynamic Traffic Flow: Modeling and Applications

✍ Scribed by Xiqun (Michael) Chen, Li Li, Qixin Shi (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 202
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book reveals the underlying mechanisms of complexity and stochastic evolutions of traffic flows. Using Eulerian and Lagrangian measurements, the authors propose lognormal headway/spacing/velocity distributions and subsequently develop a Markov car-following model to describe drivers’ random choices concerning headways/spacings, putting forward a stochastic fundamental diagram model for wide scattering flow-density points. In the context of highway onramp bottlenecks, the authors present a traffic flow breakdown probability model and spatial-temporal queuing model to improve the stability and reliability of road traffic flows. This book is intended for researchers and graduate students in the fields of transportation engineering and civil engineering.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Literature Review....Pages 9-25
Empirical Observations of Stochastic and Dynamic Evolutions of Traffic Flow....Pages 27-47
A Markov Model Based on Headway/Spacing Distributions....Pages 49-79
Stochastic Fundamental Diagram Based on Headway/Spacing Distributions....Pages 81-115
Traffic Flow Breakdown Model Based on Headway/Spacing Distributions....Pages 117-162
Conclusions and Future Work....Pages 163-165
Back Matter....Pages 167-193

✦ Subjects

Complexity; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity; Civil Engineering