Download or read book Multi-lane Hybrid Traffic Flow Model written by Jorge Andrés Laval and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-lane traffic flow model realistically captures the disruptive effects of lane-changing vehicles by recognizing their limited ability to accelerate. While they accelerate, these vehicles create voids in the traffic stream that affect its character. Bounded acceleration explains two features of freeway traffic streams: the capacity drop of freeway bottlenecks, and the quantitative relation between the discharge rate of moving bottlenecks and bottleneck speed. The model combines a multilane kinematic wave module for the traffic stream, with a detailed constrained-motion model to describe the lane-changing maneuvers, and a behavioral demand model to trigger them. The behavioral demand model has only one parameter. It was held constant in all experiments.