Analysis of traffic flow by the finite element method

DOI10.1016/0307-904X(85)90024-1MaRDI QIDQ1069430zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors B. George

Publication date 1985

Published in Applied Mathematical Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0307-904X(85)90024-1

zbMATH Keywords

finite element methodologyNewton-Raphson methodnumerical solution of traffic flow problemsstep-by-step time integration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical mathematical programming methods (65K05) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz, Galerkin and collocation methods for ordinary differential equations (65L60) Deterministic network models in operations research (90B10)

Review text

A finite element methodology is developed for the numerical solution of traffic flow problems encountered in arterial streets. The simple continuum traffic flow model consisting of the equation of continuity and an equilibrium flow-density relationship is adopted. A Galerkin type finite element method is used to formulate the problem in discrete form and the solution is obtained by a step-by-step time integration in conjunction with the Newton-Raphson method. The proposed finite element methodology, which is of the shock capturing type, is applied to flow traffic problems. Two numerical examples illustrate the method and demonstrate its advantages over other analytical or numerical techniques.

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