A review of the mathematical models for traffic flow

In this paper, we critically review mathematical models for the flow of traffic that treat traffic as a continuum and provide a discussion of their shortcomings. We also review a spatially discrete traffic flow model that does not suffer from such shortcomings and provide recently collected, corroborating data for a trip-time estimation scheme based on the spatially discrete model.

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