Analysis of a multi-population kinetic model for traffic flow

DOI10.4310/CMS.2017.V15.N2.A5zbMath1367.35102arXiv1511.06395MaRDI QIDQ2627195

Gabriella Puppo, Andrea Tosin, Giuseppe Visconti, Matteo Semplice

Publication date: 30 May 2017

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this work we extend a recent kinetic traffic model to the case of more than one class of vehicles, each of which is characterized by few different microscopic features. We consider a Boltzmann-like framework with only binary interactions, which take place among vehicles belonging to the various classes. Our approach differs from the multi-population kinetic model based on a lattice of speeds because here we assume continuous velocity spaces and we introduce a parameter describing the physical velocity jump performed by a vehicle that increases its speed after an interaction. The model is discretized in order to investigate numerically the structure of the resulting fundamental diagrams and the system of equations is analyzed by studying well posedness. Moreover, we compute the equilibria of the discretized model and we show that the exact asymptotic kinetic distributions can be obtained with a small number of velocities in the grid. Finally, we introduce a new probability law in order to attenuate the sharp capacity drop occurring in the diagrams of traffic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06395

zbMATH Keywords

discrete velocity modelsmultispecies modelsBoltzmann-like kinetic modelsmulti-valued diagramstwo-phases diagrams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Explicit solutions, first integrals of ordinary differential equations (34A05) Traffic problems in operations research (90B20) Applications to the sciences (65Z05) Boltzmann equations (35Q20)

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