Traffic and Granular Flow ’03 pp 241-246 | Cite as
Introducing the Effects of Slow Vehicles in a LWR Two-Flow Traffic Model
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The aim of this article is to study how the obstruction caused by slow vehicles (like trucks for example) on other ones can be modelled in a two-flow macroscopic model based on the Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) theory. This will be done by using the results of moving bottleneck models which describe the effect of a single slow vehicle on the rest of the flow.
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