Reproducible features of congested highway traffic

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作者
Smilowitz, KR
Daganzo, CF
机构
[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Civil Engn, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[3] Univ Calif Berkeley, Inst Transportat Studies, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
关键词
traffic flow theory; congestion prediction; traffic spillovers; bottleneck effects; experimental verification;
D O I
10.1016/S0895-7177(01)00179-0
中图分类号
TP39 [计算机的应用];
学科分类号
081203 ; 0835 ;
摘要
Observation of a four-mile long, inhomogeneous, congested traffic stream revealed that vehicle accumulations between detectors vary with flow in a predictable way, and that a macroscopic kinematic wave with a reproducible speed exists in queues despite unusual traffic behavior. As a result, time-dependent vehicle trip times and accumulations inside long queues (and the queue length itself) can be predicted from readily available data without using any "degrees of freedom" to fit the parameters of a model. Experimental vehicle counts were within 20 vehicles of the predictions for over two hours. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:509 / 515
页数:7
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