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Book cover Macroscopic Models for Vehicular Flows and Crowd Dynamics: Theory and Applications

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This chapter introduces the main theoretical definitions and models encountered in the study of vehicular traffic. After a brief non-exhaustive overview and classification of the models for traffic, we describe the fundamental traffic variables and their relations.

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Rosini, M.D. (2013). Vehicular Traffic. In: Macroscopic Models for Vehicular Flows and Crowd Dynamics: Theory and Applications. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00155-5_9

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