The Effect of Speed Controls on Traffic

Abstract

We use a combination of continuum and car-following models to explore the potential impact of speed-controls on (i) decreasing travel times at times of congested flow; and (ii) increasing the safety of motorway flow approaching the site of an accident.

Citation

Mason, A.D. and Woods, A.W. (1998), "The Effect of Speed Controls on Traffic", Griffiths, J.D. (Ed.) Mathematics in Transport Planning and Control, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 351-360. https://doi.org/10.1108/9780585474182-034