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TITLE: Some macroscopic laws of urban traffic dynamics: analysis, physical evidence and control applications
SPEAKER: Carlos F. Daganzo
Director, Center for Future Urban Transportation
Institute of Transportation Studies
University of California, Berkeley
ABSTRACT:
It is shown that under some conditions some properties of a road link -- such as its capacity and its fundamental diagram -- scale up when several links are joined together to form a regular structure (e.g., a ring). Of particular interest is the existence of both, a macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) relating a network
