Linking of Three-Phase Traffic Theory and Fundamental Diagram Approach to Traffic Flow Modeling

Abstract

A link between three-phase traffic theory and the fundamental diagram approach to traffic flow modeling can be created through the use of the averaging of an infinite number of steady states of synchronized flow shown in Figs.11.1 and 11.5 to one synchronized flow speed for each density. In this case, we should find rules for vehicle motion in a traffic flow model whose steady states are associated with a fundamental diagram, however, the model should show the free flow, synchronized flow, and wide moving jam phases as well as the F→S→J transitions.