Title
A Fully-Discrete-State Kinetic Theory Approach to Modeling Vehicular Traffic.
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 speed) 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 roadwork or to a traffic light). Moreover, it is analytically tractable under quite general assumptions, whereby fundamental properties of the solutions can be rigorously proved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1137/120897110
SIAM JOURNAL ON APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
traffic granularity,generalized kinetic theory,vehicle interactions,stochastic games
Statistical physics,Mathematical optimization,Three-phase traffic theory,Flow (psychology),Queue,Mathematical theory,Microscopic traffic flow model,Kinetic theory,Granularity,Formalism (philosophy),Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
73
4
0036-1399
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.59
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luisa Fermo1174.62
Andrea Tosin2529.49