Constructing set-valued fundamental diagrams from Jamiton solutions in second order traffic models

Benjamin Seibold; Morris R. Flynn; Aslan R. Kasimov; Rodolfo R. Rosales

doi:10.3934/nhm.2013.8.745

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2013, Volume 8, Issue 3: 745-772. Doi: 10.3934/nhm.2013.8.745 open access

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Constructing set-valued fundamental diagrams from Jamiton solutions in second order traffic models

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Temple University, Department of Mathematics, 1805 North Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19122
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G8
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4700 King Abdullah University of, Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900
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Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

Received: April 2012

Revised: June 2013

Published: September 2013

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Fundamental diagrams of vehicular traffic flow are generally multi-valued in the congested flow regime. We show that such set-valued fundamental diagrams can be constructed systematically from simple second order macroscopic traffic models, such as the classical Payne-Whitham model or the inhomogeneous Aw-Rascle-Zhang model. These second order models possess nonlinear traveling wave solutions, called jamitons, and the multi-valued parts in the fundamental diagram correspond precisely to jamiton-dominated solutions. This study shows that transitions from function-valued to set-valued parts in a fundamental diagram arise naturally in well-known second order models. As a particular consequence, these models intrinsically reproduce traffic phases.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35B40, 35C07, 35L65, 35Q91; Secondary: 76L05, 91C99.

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