Breakdown in Traffic Networks: Fundamentals of Transportation Science - Couverture rigide

Kerner, Boris S.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3662544717 ISBN 13 : 9783662544716

Editeur : Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 2017

Synopsis

<p>This book offers a detailed investigation of breakdowns in traffic and transportation networks. It shows empirically that transitions from free flow to so-called synchronized flow, initiated by local disturbances at network bottlenecks, display a nucleation-type behavior: while small disturbances in free flow decay, larger ones grow further and lead to breakdowns at the bottlenecks. Further, it discusses in detail the significance of this nucleation effect for traffic and transportation theories, and the consequences this has for future automatic driving, traffic control, dynamic traffic assignment, and optimization in traffic and transportation networks.</p>Starting from a large volume of field traffic data collected from various sources obtained solely through measurements in real world traffic, the author develops his insights, with an emphasis less on reviewing existing methodologies, models and theories, and more on providing a detailed analysis of empirical traffic data and drawing consequences regarding the minimum requirements for any traffic and transportation theories to be valid.<p></p><p>The book</p><p></p><p>- proves the empirical nucleation nature of traffic breakdown in networks</p><p>- discusses the origin of the failure of classical traffic and transportation theories</p><p>- shows that the three-phase theory is incommensurable with the classical traffic theories, and</p><p>- explains why current state-of-the art dynamic traffic assignments tend to provoke heavy traffic congestion,</p>making it a valuable reference resource for a wide audience of scientists and postgraduate students interested in the fundamental understanding of&nbsp;empirical traffic phenomena and related data-driven phenomenology, as well as for practitioners working in the fields of traffic and transportation engineering.<p></p><p></p>

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Boris S. Kerner was born in Moscow in 1947 and graduated from Moscow Technical University MIREA in 1972. He received the Ph.D. and Sc.D. (Doctor of Sciences) degrees from the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1979 and 1986, respectively. Between 1972 and 1992, his major research interests included the physics of semiconductors, plasma and solid-state physics as well as the development of a theory of autosolitons - solitary intrinsic states, which form in a broad class of physical, chemical and biological dissipative systems. Since 1992, he worked on understanding vehicular traffic at Daimler Company in Stuttgart, Germany. He is the pioneer of the three-phase traffic theory, which he introduced and developed in 1996-2002. Between 2000 and 2013, he was Head of Traffic, a field of research at Daimler. In 2011, he was appointed Professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Since his retirement from Daimler in 2013, Prof. Kernerhas been working at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He authored more than 260 scientific works and patents as well as five books that are devoted to a variety of physical systems, complex dynamics of traffic flow in traffic and transportation networks, applications of diverse intelligent transportation systems for traffic prognosis, traffic control, dynamic traffic assignment as well as to the study of autonomous and connected vehicles in mixed traffic flow.

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This book offers a detailed investigation of breakdowns in traffic and transportation networks. It shows empirically that transitions from free flow to so-called synchronized flow, initiated by local disturbances at network bottlenecks, display a nucleation-type behavior: while small disturbances in free flow decay, larger ones grow further and lead to breakdowns at the bottlenecks. Further, it discusses in detail the significance of this nucleation effect for traffic and transportation theories, and the consequences this has for future automatic driving, traffic control, dynamic traffic assignment, and optimization in traffic and transportation networks.<br>Starting from a large volume of field traffic data collected from various sources obtained solely through measurements in real world traffic, the author develops his insights, with an emphasis less on reviewing existing methodologies, models and theories, and more on providing a detailed analysis of empirical traffic data and drawing consequences regarding the minimum requirements for any traffic and transportation theories to be valid.<p></p><p>The book</p><p></p><p>- proves the empirical nucleation nature of traffic breakdown in networks</p><p>- discusses the origin of the failure of classical traffic and transportation theories</p><p>- shows that the three-phase theory is incommensurable with the classical traffic theories, and</p><p>- explains why current state-of-the art dynamic traffic assignments tend to provoke heavy traffic congestion,</p>making it a valuable reference resource for a wide audience of scientists and postgraduate students interested in the fundamental understanding of&nbsp;empirical traffic phenomena and related data-driven phenomenology, as well as for practitioners working in the fields of traffic and transportation engineering.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3662544717
• ISBN 13: 9783662544716
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 652
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