Traffic Flow Dynamics: Data, Models and Simulation
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (844 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3642324592 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 506 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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It makes this fascinating interdisciplinary topic, which to date was only documented in parts by specialized monographs, accessible to a broad readership. Numerous figures and problems with solutions help the reader to quickly understand and practice the presented concepts. It also offers material for project work in programming and simulation at college and university level.The main part, after presenting different categories of traffic data, is devoted to a mathematical description of the dynamics of traffic flow, covering macroscopic models which describe traffic in terms of density, as well as microscopic many-particle models in which each particle corresponds to a vehicle and its driver. Focus chapters on traffic instabilities and model calibration/validation present these topics in a novel and systematic way. Finally, the theoretical framework is shown at work in selected applications such as traffic-state and travel-time estimation, intelligent transportation systems, traffic operations management, and a detailed physics-based model for fuel consumption and emissions.. This book is targeted at students of physics and traffic engineering and, more generally, also at students and professionals in computer science, mathema
In 2009, he received the IEEE ITS Best Ph.D. His research interests include microscopic traffic simulation, advanced driver-assistant systems, and car-to-car communication.. Dissertation Award for the thesis "Microscopic Modeling of Human and Automated Driving: Towards Traffic-Adaptive Cruise Control". He is a lecturer at the Chair for Traffic Modeling and Econometrics at the University of Technology in
it will be a useful guide for students who want to make the jump into a fascinating area of research.” (Katsuhiro Nishinari, Physics Today, March, 2014). From the reviews:“Traffic Flow Dynamics is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to discussing highway traffic data. … In the second part of the book, the authors describe almost all the important achievements in the field … . The final part of the book applies traffic-flow theory to solving traffic jams …
Understandng traffic flow and especially traffic jams While everybody experienced traffic jams, only few people are aware that they can be described with mathematical equations as though cars are physical particles. At least this is what the authors (who are physicists themselves) claim in their textbook. But is this really the case? By giving many real-world examples and devoting a whole part to empirical data, this book convinces me that this is true in most of the situations treated by the authors. It is particularly amazing that there are even some "traffic flow constants" such as a "jam propagation constant" stating that stop-a. Maier said on traffic flow -- fun facts and the math behind. The potential buyer should be aware that this book is on traffic *flow* models which is a different (and much more dynamic) approach compared to the more traditional "traffic models" such as the four-step scheme of classical urban transportation planning: If you want to know whether that new bridge will solve all traffic problems in your city, use the four-step scheme. If you want to learn the mechanisms behind stop-and-go traffic (and how to avoid it), be informed on the methods of real-time traffic-state recognition, or test whether the proposed new traffic-adaptive signal cont. "Great book for both theory and real life practices in transportation problems and operations." according to kukushkin. This is a great book for transportation operations. Thou there is almost no price difference between Kindle version and hard-copy. As an old-school person, I would rather pay more money to get the hard-copy version. The book is really extensive and has a lot of interesting examples. It is a good combination of theory, practice, simulation and data results and the questions/examples are very well up-to-date. However, you might find wrong correlations or equations etc. in the earlier versions. Thou the authors are very easy to reach and if you let them know of the wrong stuff in th