First-order traffic flow models incorporating capacity drop: Overview and real-data validation

M Kontorinaki, A Spiliopoulou, C Roncoli… - … Research Part B …, 2017 - Elsevier
First-order traffic flow models of the LWR (Lighthill-Whitham-Richards) type are known for
their simplicity and computational efficiency and have, for this reason, been widely used for …

Motorway traffic flow modelling, estimation and control with vehicle automation and communication systems

I Papamichail, N Bekiaris-Liberis, AI Delis… - Annual Reviews in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Traffic congestion on motorways is a serious threat for the economic and social life of
modern society as well as for the environment, which calls for drastic and radical solutions …

Extending ramp metering control to mixed autonomy traffic flow with varying degrees of automation

M Shang, S Wang, RE Stern - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2023 - Elsevier
The emergence of automated vehicles may have significant impacts on traffic flow. While
many studies suggest that fully automated vehicles can improve traffic flow by changing their …

Hierarchical model predictive control for multi-lane motorways in presence of vehicle automation and communication systems

C Roncoli, I Papamichail, M Papageorgiou - Transportation Research Part …, 2016 - Elsevier
A widespread deployment of vehicle automation and communication systems (VACS) is
expected in the next years. This may lead to improvements in traffic management efficiency …

Extending the Link Transmission Model with non-triangular fundamental diagrams and capacity drops

JPT van der Gun, AJ Pel, B Van Arem - Transportation Research Part B …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The original Link Transmission Model as formulated by Yperman et al.(2006)
simulates traffic according to Lighthill–Whitham–Richards theory with a very small numerical …

A kinematic wave model in Lagrangian coordinates incorporating capacity drop: Application to homogeneous road stretches and discontinuities

K Yuan, VL Knoop, SP Hoogendoorn - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and …, 2017 - Elsevier
On freeways, congestion always leads to capacity drop. This means the queue discharge
rate is lower than the pre-queue capacity. Our recent research findings indicate that the …

[图书][B] Capacity drop on freeways: Traffic dynamics, theory and modeling

K Yuan - 2016 - pure.tudelft.nl
It was in November 2011 that I had my first interview in the 3rd PhD workshop in Beijing for
my PhD position. I had a very nice talk with Prof. Fokkema and Marianne there, which also …

On the consistency of freeway macroscopic merging models

JM Tomé, F Soriguera… - Transportation Research …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Many first-order macroscopic models for freeway traffic have been developed since the
seminal work on the well-known Lighthill–Whitham–Richards, or LWR, continuous model …

Enabling the next generation of transportation systems by accounting for heterogeneity in traffic flow: Modeling and control of mixed autonomy traffic

M Shang - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Traffic engineering is a field characterized by heterogeneity, reflecting the diverse behaviors
of individual agents using the infrastructure. While traffic heterogeneity has been discussed …

A modified cell transmission model incorporating capacity drop at merge bottleneck considering on-ramp flow

S Wang, X Xie, W Duan… - 2018 10th International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Capacity drop is one of the most famous and confusing phenomena in the dynamic of
motorway traffic and is closely related to the occurrence of congestion and the magnitude of …