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Transportation Research Board ACP50
Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics

Traffic Flow Theory Monographs

Revised Traffic Flow Theory Monograph, 2001: [TRB/FHWA version]
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1: Introduction (Gartner, Messer, Rathi)
Chapter 2 (revised): Traffic Stream Characteristics (Hall) [original]
Chapter 3: Human Factors (Koppa)
Chapter 4: Car Following Models (Rothery)
Chapter 5 (revised): Continuum Models (Kühne, Michalopolous, Zhang) [original]
Chapter 6: Macroscopic Flow Models (Williams)
Chapter 7: Traffic Impact Models (Ardekani, Hauer, Jamei)
Chapter 8: Unsignalized Intersection Theory (Troutbeck, Brilon)
Chapter 9: Traffic Flow at Signalized Intersections (Rouphail, Tarko, Li)
Chapter 10: Traffic Simulation (Lieberman, Rathi)
Chapter 11: Kinetic Theories (Nelson)
Index

Traffic Flow Theory: A Monograph, Transportation Research Board Special Report 165, 1975
An Introduction to Traffic Flow Theory, Highway Research Board Special Report 79, 1964
Highway Capacity Manual, Highway Research Board, Committee on Highway Capacity, 1950.
Highway Capacity Manual, Highway Research Board, Special Report 87, 1965.

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Textbooks

Traffic Flow Theory: An Introduction with Exercises (Knoop, 2020)
May, A.D. Traffic flow fundamentals. 1990.
Leutzbach, W. Introduction to the theory of traffic flow. Vol. 47. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1988.
Daganzo, C.F. Fundamentals of transportation and traffic operations. Vol. 30. Oxford: Pergamon, 1997.
Treiber, M., and A. Kesting. "Traffic flow dynamics." Traffic Flow Dynamics: Data, Models and Simulation, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg (2013).
Elefteriadou, L. An introduction to traffic flow theory. Vol. 84. New York, NY, USA:Springer, 2014.
Ni, D. Traffic Flow Theory: Characteristics, Experimental Methods, and NumericalTechniques. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2015

Historic Publications: Since 1963 the Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics (and its predecessor committees) have contributed 497 papers to 57 issues of the Transportation Research Record (previously the Highway Research Record). Please take a look at this record over the past 49 years by following the links. Thanks to Ethan Xuan of U.C. Berkeley for this effort. We invite your comments on these papers—how have they influenced research or practice?

Repository of Past Publications

Past ISTTT Papers

Data

Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD) Dataquest
- Toulouse
Microscopic
- TFHRC Trajectory Data (download .zip file)
- NGSIM via the U.S. DOT ITS Data Hub (www.its.dot.gov/data)
Macroscopic
Other
- NREL Secure Transportation Data

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