Introduction to Network Traffic Flow Theory

Wenlong Jin is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Transportation Studies, at the University of California, Irvine, focusing on the study of drivers' individual choice behaviours (trajectories) and collective queueing processes (cumulative flows). His research interests include modeling and analysing dynamic and stationary traffic patterns at bottlenecks in road networks, using junction models, cell transmission models, link transmission models, capacity drop models, and network stationary models. He has published more than 40 journal articles, including in Elsevier’s Transportation Research Part B: Methodological (for which he serves on the Editorial Advisory Board), and Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies.

Part I. Basics 1. Introduction 2. Representations, variables, and observations 3. Fundamental diagrams

Part II. Link Models 4. The Lighthill-Whitham-Richards model 5. The Cell Transmission Model 6. The Link Transmission Model 7. Queueing models

Part III. Network Models 8. Junction models 9. Network kinematic wave theory 10. Network stationary states and stability 11. Capacity drop models

Part IV. Microscopic models 12. Equivalence between continuum and car-following models 13. Second-order formulation of the LWR model 14. Bounded acceleration models 15. Multilane car-following models 16. Second-order capacity drop model 17. Appendix