Introduction to Modern Traffic Flow Theory and Control The Long Road to Three-Phase Traffic Theory /

• Main Author: Kerner, Boris S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Automotive engineering.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Automotive Engineering.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Regional/Spatial Science.

This in-depth treatment explains the nature of traffic breakdown and the resulting congestion in vehicular traffic on the basis of three-phase traffic theory, in a manner consistent with real measured traffic data. The author also addresses freeway traffic control methods within the framework of the...

Table of Contents:

• Three-Phase Traffic Theory
• Definitions of The Three Traffic Phases
• Nature of Traffic Breakdown at Bottleneck
• Infinite Number of Highway Capacities of Free Flow at Bottleneck
• Nature of Moving Jam Emergence
• Origin of Hypotheses and Terms of Three-Phase Traffic Theory
• Spatiotemporal Traffic Congested Patterns
• II Impact of Three-Phase Traffic Theory on
• to Part II:Compendium of Three-Phase Traffic Theory
• Freeway Traffic Control based on Three-Phase Traffic Theory
• Earlier Theoretical Basis of Transportation Engineering: Fundamental Diagram Approach
• Three-Phase Traffic Flow Models
• Linking of Three-Phase Traffic Theory and Fundamental Diagram Approach to Traffic Flow Modeling
• Conclusions and Outlook.