Vehicle accelerations in the hydrodynamic theory of traffic flow.

Author(s)
Pipes, L.A.
Year
Abstract

The hydrodynamic theory of traffic flow along long crowded highways is based on the concept that the actual flow of vehicles may be considered as the flow of a hypothetical "traffic fluid" that satisfies an equation of continuity and an "equation of state". In this paper the acceleration of a vehicle as it moves in the stream of traffic is studied and an equation similar to Euler's equation in the theory of real fluids is derived.

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A 5236 T IRRD 46827
Source

Transportation Research, Vol. 3 (1969), No. 2 (July), p. 229-34

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