Traffic Jams
Burkhard Militzer
May 5, 1998
The flow of vehicular traffic has been studied in many different ways. After an introduction, we will give overview of several models for the flow on single lane road: a fluid dynamics theory, a approach based on the dynamics of individual vehicles and a model using a cellular automata. The latter model will be used to study to flow in two dimensions representing the traffic in a city with crossings and traffic lights.