Title
Continuous and timed Petri nets for the macroscopic and microscopic traffic flow modelling
Abstract
Traffic flow can be considered as a hybrid system which is characterized by two major behaviours: continuous ones in motorways and discrete ones in road junctions. We propose a modelling approach based on Petri nets. For this purpose, places of Petri nets stand for the road sections and transitions describe the flow between two consecutive sections at intersections. Thanks an adaptive spatial discretization the proposed models are suitable to represent the traffic flow either from a macroscopic point of view where only global variables are observed or from a microscopic one where the individual trajectories of vehicles are discussed. The proposed models suggest a mathematical framework for the analysis and control design in urban and interurban networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1016/j.simpat.2005.01.001
Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory
Keywords
Field
DocType
Continuous Petri nets,Discrete Petri nets,Macroscopic traffic modelling,Microscopic traffic modelling,Simulation
Discretization,Petri net,Traffic flow,Computer science,Microscopic traffic flow model,Process architecture,Stochastic Petri net,Control engineering,Hybrid system,Global variable
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
5
1569-190X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
28
1.48
3
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
C. Tolba1281.48
Dimitri Lefebvre236252.36
P. Thomas37812.59
A. El Moudni4546.45