A diffusion-based analysis of a multiclass road traffic network

DOI10.1287/STSY.2019.0065MaRDI QIDQ5856673zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jaap Storm, M. R. H. Mandjes

Publication date 29 March 2021

Published in Stochastic Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.09275

zbMATH Keywords

functional central limit theoremconservation lawsdiffusion approximationtravel timefundamental diagramfunctional law of large numberstraffic flow theoryroad traffic networks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25) Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17) Traffic problems in operations research (90B20)

Abstract: This paper studies a stochastic model that describes the evolution of vehicle densities in a road network. It is consistent with the class of (deterministic) kinematic wave models, which describe traffic flows on the basis of conservation laws that incorporate the macroscopic fundamental diagram (a functional relationship between vehicle density and flow). Our setup is capable of handling multiple types of vehicle densities, with general macroscopic fundamental diagrams, on a network with arbitrary topology. Interpreting our system as a spatial population process, we derive, under a natural scaling, fluid and diffusion limits. More specifically, the vehicle density process can be approximated with a suitable Gaussian process, which yield accurate normal approximations to the joint (in the spatial and temporal sense) vehicle density process. The corresponding means and variances can be computed efficiently. Along the same lines, we develop an approximation to the vehicles' travel-time distribution between any given origin and destination pair. Finally, we present a series of numerical experiments that demonstrate the accuracy of the approximations and illustrate the usefulness of the results.

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