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There you sit, seat belt fastened, engine idling, in command of two tons of personal locomotion. Your automobile gives you freedom to travel where you want, when you want, and, unlike the aircraft pilot, you can grossly change your course without prior clearance. The road is yours and to assert your rights you’re belligerent beyond your bumpers.
Reprinted with permission from International Science and Technology, May 1964.
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A bibliography of current literature on traffic and transportation is published by Northwestern University. This publication is particularly valuable for its listing of metropolitan area planning reports, usually hard to come by and worth reading because they are poles apart from microscopic views of the vehicle-driver-road problem.
An excellent volume of papers that deal with both microscopic and macroscopic views is Theory of Traffic Flow,the proceedings of a symposium held at General Motors Research Laboratories in 1959 (Elsevier, 1961, $9). Proceedings of a subsequent conference at the Road Research Laboratory in England are forthcoming.
The Transportation Sciences Section of the Operations Research Society of America holds meetings which bring together a mixture of scientists, traffic engineers, and city planners. Among the papers appearing in the society publication are. Among the papers appearing in the society publication are “Nonlinear Follow-the-Leader Models of Traffic Flow,” by Gazis, Herman, and Rothery (Operations Research 9, No. 4, July-Aug. 1961). The most recent report on car-following studies by the General Motors group appears in “Vehicular Traffic Flow,” Scientific American, Dec. 1963.
Don’t pass up the eminently readable Buchanan Report, published as “Traffic in Towns” (Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1963, $10). Even the charts and photos are intriguing.
A highly mathematical paper “On a Generalized Boltzmann-like Approach for Traffic Flow” by I. Prigogine et al. appeared in Bulletin de la Classe des Sciences 48, Part 5 (Académie royale de Belgique, 1962).
Traffic Engineering and Control,published in the UK, and Strasse and Verkehr,published in Germany, are two journals reflecting the work of traffic engineers. But you’ll find other facets of traffic in articles appearing at random in the American Behavioral Scientist and the Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. Papers are published by the Institute of Traffic Engineers and the Highway Research Board.
Aspects of the Toronto computer experiment are discussed in “The Control of Traffic Signals with an Electronic Computer” by L. Casciato (Proceedings of the IFIP Congress 62 North Holland). Traffic Research Corp. of Toronto (20 Spadina Rd.) has a color sound motion picture.
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Herbert, E. (1965). Traffic. In: Horton, T.R. (eds) Traffic Control. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1722-7_1
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