On the micro-to-macro limit for first-order traffic flow models on networks

Cristiani, E.; Sahu, S.

Abstract

Connections between microscopic follow-the-leader and macroscopic fluid-dynamics traffic flow models are already well understood in the case of vehicles moving on a single road. Analogous connections in the case of road networks are instead lacking. This is probably due to the fact that macroscopic traffic models on networks are in general ill-posed, since the conservation of the mass is not sufficient alone to characterize a unique solution at junctions. This ambiguity makes more difficult to find the right limit of the microscopic model, which, in turn, can be defined in different ways near the junctions. In this paper we show that a natural extension of the first-order follow-the-leader model on networks corresponds, as the number of vehicles tends to infinity, to the LWR-based multi-path model introduced in [4,5].

Citation

Cristiani, E., & Sahu, S. (2016). On the micro-to-macro limit for first-order traffic flow models on networks. Networks and Heterogeneous Media, 11(3), 395-413. https://doi.org/10.3934/nhm.2016002

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 30, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Aug 30, 2016
• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Dec 30, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 30, 2017
• Journal: Networks and Heterogeneous Media
• Print ISSN: 1556-1801
• Electronic ISSN: 1556-181X
• Publisher: American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 395-413
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3934/nhm.2016002
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1416028
• Related Public URLs: http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.01372