Final report: The risk for a gridlock and the macroscopic fundamental diagram

Abstract

A solid base for modeling traffic gridlocks and their avoidance by control techniques exists for the strand of aggregate transport modeling. However, transport modeling continuously shifts from aggregate (macroscopic) to disaggregate (microscopic) models in recent years as with the movement from extending to managing the infrastructure, many important new questions came up, which can only be answered having the higher resolution of the disaggregate models (Kitamura (1996, Section 2) and Daly (2013)).