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Control Design using Traffic Flow theory based on hyperbolic conservation laws
- Project Team:
- Project Leaders: Prof. Biswajit Basu and Prof. Margaret O’Mahony
- Research Student: Tigran Tchrakian
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This project examines the use of traffic flow models based on hyperbolic systems of conservation laws for control design. The traffic flow is modelled in analogy with gas dynamics using a "second order" model. This class of model is based in a 2X2 hyperbolic system of conservation laws and is capable of predicting driver behaviour more accurately than models based on a scalar conservation law such as the Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) model. Most currently used traffic controllers are based on a statistical approach and largely ignore traffic physics while this project aims to account for both the stochastic nature of traffic flow as well as the inherent physical processes.
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