An Introduction to Traffic Flow Theory

Lily Elefteriadou is the Director of the UF Transportation Institute (UFTI) and the Barbara Goldsby Professor of Civil Engineering in the Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment at UF. Her research focus is traffic operations, traffic flow theory and simulation. She is the principal investigator of the US DOT-funded Regional University Transportation Center for Region 4 (Southeast Transportation Research Innovation Development and Education, or STRIDE). Dr. Elefteriadou received her Ph.D. in 1994 from NYU Polytechnic University, New York for Transportation Planning and Engineering.  She received M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, in 1990.  Her B.S. in Surveying, and Environmental Engineering, (five-year program) is from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, was earned in 1987.  Her research interested include traffic flow theory, traffic simulation, and signal control optimization. Awards & Distinctions.  Dr. Elefteriadou has received the following awards and distinctions: ASCE Harland Bartholomew Award (2019), University of Florida Term Professorship Award (2018), ASCE James Laurie Prize (2015), ARTBA Ethel S. Birchland Lifetime Achievement Award (2015), Best Model Development Paper Award, for the paper' "Driver Behavior Based Lane-Changing Model and Its Implementation in CORSIM," Joint (2010), Subcommittee on Traffic Simulation, Transportation Research Board (2010), and Fulbright Scholar  "Technical University Delft, Netherlands" (2001).

Introduction.- Part 1.- 1. Modeling the Motion of a Single Vehicle.- 2. Modeling Vehicle Interactions and the Movement of Groups of Vehicles.- Part 2.- 3. The Traffic Stream: Traffic Flow Performance Characteristics.- 4. Capacity.- 5. Traffic Operational Performance Measures.- Part 3.- 6. Analytical Models for Bottleneck and Queuing Evaluations.- 7. Simulation Modeling.- Part 4.- 8. Freeways.- 9. Signalized Intersections and Networks.- 10. Unsignalized Intersections.- 11. Two-Lane Highways.- Appendix A.- Appendix B.- Index.