A traffic model aware of real time data

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Abstract: Nowadays, traffic monitoring systems have access to real time data, e.g. through GPS devices. We propose a new traffic model able to take into account these data and, hence, able to describe the effects of unpredictable accidents. The well posedness of this model is proved and numerical integrations show qualitative features of the resulting solutions. As a further motivation for the use of real time data, we show that the inverse problem for the Lighthill-Whitam and Richards (LWR) model is ill posed.


The authors show that inverse problems arising in traffic models with real time data (provided by a measuring vehicle) are generally ill-posed. They propose an alternative macroscopic model, which modifies the standard Lighthill-Whitham-Richards model and reduces to the usual Cauchy problem for a scalar conservation law. The authors establish the existence and uniqueness of a Kruzhkov entropy solution to this problem and also prove the \(L^1\)-stability of solutions under perturbations of initial data.











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