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Analysis of Characteristics of the Dynamic Flow-Density Relation and its Application to Traffic Flow Models  

Kim, Young-Ho (Youngsan University, School of Network & Information Engineering)
Lee, Si-Bok (Youngsan University, School of Network & Information Engineering)
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Journal of Korean Society of Transportation / v.22, no.3, 2004 , pp. 179-201 More about this Journal
Abstract
Online traffic flow modeling is attracting more attention due to intelligent transport systems and technologies. The flow-density relation plays an important role in traffic flow modeling and provides a basic way to illustrate traffic flow behavior under different traffic flow and traffic density conditions. Until now the research effort has focused mainly on the shape of the relation. The time series of the relation has not been identified clearly, even though the time series of the relation reflects the upstream/downstream traffic conditions and should be considered in the traffic flow modeling. In this paper the flow-density relation is analyzed dynamically and interpreted as a states diagram. The dynamic flow-density relation is quantified by applying fuzzy logic. The quantified dynamic flow-density relation builds the basis for online application of a macroscopic traffic flow model. The new approach to online modeling of traffic flow applying the dynamic flow-density relation alleviates parameter calibration problems stemming from the static flow-density relation.
Keywords
Online traffic flow model; dynamic flow-density relation; hysteresis; transition; fuzzy logic;
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