Modeling multi-lane traffic flow with queuing effects

Dirk Helbing

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1997, vol. 242, issue 1, 175-194

Abstract: On the basis of assumptions about the behavior of driver-vehicle units concerning acceleration, deceleration, overtaking, and lane-changing maneuvers, a gas-kinetic traffic model for unidirectional multi-lane freeways is constructed. Queuing effects are explicitly taken into account in an overall manner. The resulting model is a generalization of Paveri-Fontana's Boltzmann-like traffic model and allows the derivation of macroscopic traffic equations for interacting lanes, including velocity equations. The related effective macroscopic traffic model for the total free-way cross-section is also derived. It provides corrections with respect to previous traffic models, but agrees with them in special cases.

Keywords: Multi-lane traffic; Queuing; Gas-kinetic traffic model; Macroscopic traffic equations; Paveri-Fontana model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00183-0

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