Macroscopic traffic flow modelling: from kinematic waves to autonomous vehicles

Paola Goatin

doi:10.2478/caim-2023-0001

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Macroscopic traffic flow modelling: from kinematic waves to autonomous vehicles

Communications in Applied and Industrial Mathematics

Volume 14 (2023): Issue 1 (January 2023)

By: Paola Goatin

Open Access

|Mar 2023

Abstract

This survey offers a unified up-to-date presentation of macroscopic models of traffic flow, pointing out their main characteristics and possible drawbacks. The presentation is completed by several pictures illustrating the models’ features. Some open problems and future research directions are also given to inspire the reader.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/caim-2023-0001 | Journal eISSN: 2038-0909

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Language: English

Page range: 1 - 16

Submitted on: Jun 27, 2022

Accepted on: Dec 21, 2022

Published on: Mar 30, 2023

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Keywords:

Macroscopic traffic models,

hyperbolic systems of conservation laws,

finite volume schemes,

PDE-ODE systems

Related subjects:

Mathematics,

Numerical and computational mathematics,

Applied mathematics

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