Microscopic and Macroscopic Traffic Flow Models including Random Accidents

DOI10.4310/CMS.2021.V19.N6.A6MaRDI QIDQ6347839zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors S. Göttlich, Thomas Schillinger

Publication date 27 August 2020

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/CMS.2021.V19.N6.A6

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Traffic problems in operations research (90B20)

Abstract: We introduce microscopic and macroscopic stochastic traffic models including traffic accidents. The microscopic model is based on a Follow-the-Leader approach whereas the macroscopic model is described by a scalar conservation law with space dependent flux function. Accidents are introduced as interruptions of a deterministic evolution and are directly linked to the traffic situation. Based on a Lax-Friedrichs discretization convergence of the microscopic model to the macroscopic model is shown. Numerical simulations are presented to compare the above models and show their convergence behaviour.

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