An Introduction to Traffic Flow Theory

• Main Author: Elefteriadou, Lily (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Springer Optimization and Its Applications, 84
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Mathematical optimization.; Civil engineering.; Optimization.; Civil Engineering.

This text provides a comprehensive and concise treatment of the topic of traffic flow theory and includes several topics relevant to today’s highway transportation system. It provides the fundamental principles of traffic flow theory as well as applications of those principles for evaluating specifi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part 1
• 1. Modeling the Motion of a Single Vehicle
• 2. Modeling Vehicle Interactions and the Movement of Groups of Vehicles
• Part 2
• 3. The Traffic Stream: Traffic Flow Performance Characteristics
• 4. Capacity
• 5. Traffic Operational Performance Measures
• Part 3
• 6. Analytical Models for Bottleneck and Queuing Evaluations
• 7. Simulation Modeling
• Part 4
• 8. Freeways
• 9. Signalized Intersections and Networks
• 10. Unsignalized Intersections
• 11. Two-Lane Highways
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Index.