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Title: Criticism of generally accepted fundamentals and methodologies of traffic and transportation theory

Abstract

It is explained why the set of the fundamental empirical features of traffic breakdown (a transition from free flow to congested traffic) should be the empirical basis for any traffic and transportation theory that can be reliable used for control and optimization in traffic networks. It is shown that generally accepted fundamentals and methodologies of traffic and transportation theory are not consistent with the set of the fundamental empirical features of traffic breakdown at a highway bottleneck. To these fundamentals and methodologies of traffic and transportation theory belong (i) Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) theory, (ii) the General Motors (GM) model class (for example, Herman, Gazis et al. GM model, Gipps’s model, Payne’s model, Newell’s optimal velocity (OV) model, Wiedemann’s model, Bando et al. OV model, Treiber’s IDM, Krauß’s model), (iii) the understanding of highway capacity as a particular stochastic value, and (iv) principles for traffic and transportation network optimization and control (for example, Wardrop’s user equilibrium (UE) and system optimum (SO) principles). Alternatively to these generally accepted fundamentals and methodologies of traffic and transportation theory, we discuss three-phase traffic theory as the basis for traffic flow modeling as well as briefly consider the network breakdown minimization (BM) principle for the optimization ofmore » traffic and transportation networks with road bottlenecks.« less

Authors:
 [1]
  1. Physics of Transportation and Traffic, University Duisburg-Essen, 47048 Duisburg (Germany)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22391111
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
AIP Conference Proceedings
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 1648; Journal Issue: 1; Conference: ICNAAM-2014: International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2014, Rhodes (Greece), 22-28 Sep 2014; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; BREAKDOWN; CAPACITY; CONTROL; EQUILIBRIUM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; MINIMIZATION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VELOCITY

Citation Formats

Kerner, Boris S. Criticism of generally accepted fundamentals and methodologies of traffic and transportation theory. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4912735.
Kerner, Boris S. Criticism of generally accepted fundamentals and methodologies of traffic and transportation theory. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4912735
Kerner, Boris S. 2015. "Criticism of generally accepted fundamentals and methodologies of traffic and transportation theory". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4912735.
@article{osti_22391111,
title = {Criticism of generally accepted fundamentals and methodologies of traffic and transportation theory},
author = {Kerner, Boris S.},
abstractNote = {It is explained why the set of the fundamental empirical features of traffic breakdown (a transition from free flow to congested traffic) should be the empirical basis for any traffic and transportation theory that can be reliable used for control and optimization in traffic networks. It is shown that generally accepted fundamentals and methodologies of traffic and transportation theory are not consistent with the set of the fundamental empirical features of traffic breakdown at a highway bottleneck. To these fundamentals and methodologies of traffic and transportation theory belong (i) Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) theory, (ii) the General Motors (GM) model class (for example, Herman, Gazis et al. GM model, Gipps’s model, Payne’s model, Newell’s optimal velocity (OV) model, Wiedemann’s model, Bando et al. OV model, Treiber’s IDM, Krauß’s model), (iii) the understanding of highway capacity as a particular stochastic value, and (iv) principles for traffic and transportation network optimization and control (for example, Wardrop’s user equilibrium (UE) and system optimum (SO) principles). Alternatively to these generally accepted fundamentals and methodologies of traffic and transportation theory, we discuss three-phase traffic theory as the basis for traffic flow modeling as well as briefly consider the network breakdown minimization (BM) principle for the optimization of traffic and transportation networks with road bottlenecks.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4912735},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22391111}, journal = {AIP Conference Proceedings},
issn = {0094-243X},
number = 1,
volume = 1648,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}