Jean-Baptiste Lesort
Traffic
flow modelling : what do we know ?
Abstract :
This
survey presentation tries to identify to what extent the state of
the art in traffic flow
modelling meets the requirements given by
empirical field observations.
The presentation will first present the main features of traffic flow
as
they can be derived
from field measurements. It will then make a review
of the (few) concepts widely
accepted in traffic flow
modelling, and of the more numerous points on which tentative
models do
exist but are either incomplete or controversial. It will conclude with
some
considerations on the comparison between models and field
observations.
Talk