Traffic Flow on Road Junctions

The paper deals with a mathematical model for fluid dynamic flows on road networks which is based on conservation laws. This nonlinear framework is based on the conservation of cars. We focus on traffic circle, which is a finite number of roads that meet at some junctions. The traffic circle with junctions having either one incoming and two outgoing or two incoming and one outgoing roads. We describe the numerical schemes with the particular boundary conditions used to produce approximated solutions of the problem.

• Wah Wah Aung
• Cho Cho San

• boundary conditions
• conservation laws
• finite difference Schemes
• traffic flow.

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