Traffic Theory : International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 50 - Denos C. Gazis

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Traffic Theory

By: Denos C. Gazis

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Hardcover | 30 June 2002

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"Everything should be made as simple as possible-but not simpler" Albert Einstein Traffic Theory, like all other sciences, aims at understanding and improving a physical phenomenon. The phenomenon addressed by Traffic Theory is, of course, automobile traffic, and the problems associated with it such as traffic congestion. But what causes congestion? Some time in the 1970s, Doxiades coined the term "oikomenopolis" (and "oikistics") to describe the world as man's living space. In Doxiades' terms, persons are associated with a living space around them, which describes the range that they can cover through personal presence. In the days of old, when the movement of people was limited to walking, an individual oikomenopolis did not intersect many others. The automobile changed all that. The term "range of good" was also coined to describe the maximal distance a person can and is willing to go in order to do something useful or buy something. Traffic congestion is caused by the intersection of a multitude of such "ranges of good" of many people exercising their range utilisation at the same time. Urban structures containing desirable structures contribute to this intersection of "ranges of good". xii Preface In a biblical mood, I opened a 1970 paper entitled "Traffic Control -- From Hand Signals to Computers" with the sentence: "In the beginning there was the Ford".

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"This is a well-written book on traffic theory, dealing with some popular models of traffic flow as well as the identification of appropriate use of the various models. ... This is a competently written book, which should be of interest to researchers ... . Material from this book could also be used in courses on Transportation Science, the application of Queueing Theory, the application of Graph Theory, and the application of Optimal Control." (Hanqin Zhang, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1103 (5), 2007)

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Traffic Flow Theories	p. 1
Macroscopic Traffic Flow Theory--Kinematic Waves in Traffic	p. 1
Shock waves	p. 6
Flow versus concentration relationships	p. 9
The Boltzman-like Model of Traffic	p. 17
The two-fluid model of traffic	p. 19
Microscopic Traffic Flow Theory--Car-Following Models	p. 21
Local stability	p. 22
Asymptotic stability	p. 26
Acceleration noise	p. 31
Non-linear car-following models	p. 33
Some Questionable Paradoxes	p. 36
The Smeed paradox	p. 36
The Braess paradox	p. 38
Additional Flow Theory Work, and Future Challenges	p. 40
Queueing and Delays at Isolated Intersections	p. 45
Traffic Characteristics	p. 46
The Gap Acceptance Function	p. 49
The Delay to a Single Car	p. 50
Delays to Pedestrians	p. 63
Queueing and Delays of Vehicles	p. 71
The Delay at a Traffic Signal	p. 77
Evaluation of delays	p. 79
Optimization of traffic signal settings	p. 87
The vehicle-actuated traffic signal	p. 89
Traffic Control	p. 101
Objectives of Traffic Control	p. 103
Single, Isolated Intersection	p. 105
Synchronization Schemes for Arterial Traffic	p. 106
A mixed integer-linear programming approach	p. 112
The effect of queues on progression	p. 115
The TRANSYT method	p. 118
The Combination method	p. 121
The SIGOP program	p. 124
Traffic Responsive Operation of Traffic Lights	p. 128
Single intersection	p. 128
Systems of intersections	p. 132
Additional contributions: The SCOOT program	p. 135
The OPAC, PRODYN, CRONOS, and COP programs	p. 135
The Onset of Oversaturation	p. 136
Oversaturated Systems	p. 138
A single oversaturated intersection	p. 138
Complex oversaturated systems	p. 154
Oversaturated Store-and-Forward Networks	p. 165
Freeway Control	p. 171
Systems Affected by Geometric Details	p. 172
Traffic Generation, Distribution, and Assignment	p. 185
Network Representation of a Transportation System	p. 186
Trip Generation and Distribution	p. 189
Trip generation	p. 190
Trip distribution	p. 198
Time-Independent Traffic Assignment	p. 206
Deterministic traffic assignment models	p. 207
Discrete choice, stochastic, models	p. 211
Global Network Optimization Models	p. 219
Dynamic Traffic Assignment	p. 225
Traffic Assignment in Congested Systems	p. 229
Delivery of traveller information services	p. 237
Application of Kalman Filtering for Density Estimation in Traffic Networks	p. 245
Index	p. 257
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