A fully-discrete-state kinetic theory approach to modeling vehicular traffic

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DOI10.1137/120897110zbMATH Open1276.90018arXiv1210.7988OpenAlexW2054894768MaRDI QIDQ2862277FDOQ2862277


Authors: Luisa Fermo, Andrea Tosin Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 14 November 2013

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper presents a new mathematical model of vehicular traffic, based on the methods of the generalized kinetic theory, in which the space of microscopic states (position and velocity) of the vehicles is genuinely discrete. While in the recent literature discrete-velocity kinetic models of car traffic have already been successfully proposed, this is, to our knowledge, the first attempt to account for all aspects of the physical granularity of car flow within the formalism of the aforesaid mathematical theory. Thanks to a rich but handy structure, the resulting model allows one to easily implement and simulate various realistic scenarios giving rise to characteristic traffic phenomena of practical interest (e.g., queue formation due to roadworks or to a traffic light). Moreover, it is analytically tractable under quite general assumptions, whereby fundamental properties of the solutions can be rigorously proved.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7988




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