Introduction to Modern Traffic Flow Theory and Control The Long Road
This in-depth treatment explains the nature of traffic breakdown and the resulting congestion in vehicular traffic on the basis of three-phase traffic theory, in a manner consistent with real measured traffic data. The author also addresses
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Boris S. Kerner
Introduction to Modern Traffic Flow Theory and Control The Long Road to Three-Phase Traffic Theory
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Boris S. Kerner Daimler AG GR/PTI HPC: G021 71059 Sindelfingen Germany [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-642-02604-1 e-ISBN 978-3-642-02605-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-02605-8 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009933980 c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. c WONG SZE FEI - Fotolia.com Cover image: Cover design: deblik, Berlin Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
The understanding of empirical traffic congestion occurring on unsignalized multilane highways and freeways is a key for effective traffic management, control, organization, and other applications of transportation engineering. However, the traffic flow theories and models that dominate up to now in transportation research journals and teaching programs of most universities cannot explain either traffic breakdown or most features of the resulting congested patterns. These theories are also the basis of most dynamic traffic assignment models and freeway traffic control methods, which therefore are not consistent with features of real traffic. For this reason, the author introduced an alternative traffic flow theory called three-phase traffic theory, which can predict and explain the empirical spatiotemporal features of traffic breakdown and the resulting traffic congestion. A previous book “The Physics of Traffic” (Springer, Berlin, 2004) presented a discussion of the empirical spatiotemporal features of congested traffic patterns and of three-phase traffic theory as well as their engineering applications. Rather than a comprehensive analysis of empirical and theoretical results in the field, the present book includes no more empirical and theoretical results than are necessary for the understanding of vehicular traffic on unsignalized multi-lane roads. The main objectives of the book are to present an “elementary” traffic flow theory and control methods as well as to show links between three-phase traffic theory and earlier traffic flow theories. The need for such a book fol
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