ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

All great abundant thanks to the Glorious Almighty Allah, the Omniscient and
the sole nourish the sustainer of the universe, who taught me and guided my
step to this humble effort.

I wish to express my profound gratitude to my supervisor Dr. Laek Sazzad

Andallah, Department of Mathematics, Jahangirnagar University, for his overall
guidance throughout my research and spending many hours discussing and
reviewing the draft manuscript of this thesis. The preparation of this thesis
would never have been possible without his constructive suggestions, continual
encouragement and assistance.

I wish to pay my great appreciation to the chairman Mr. Faruque Ahmed and
my all respected teachers and staffs in the Department of Mathematics,
Jahangirnagar University.

My profound appreciation is extended to the examination committee, M. Sc.-

2006, Department of Mathematics, Jahangirnagar University.

I acknowledge the co-operation of the Roads and Highways Department (RHD)

of Bangladesh who provided me the essential data for traffic count survey.

I am also thankful to my friends, well wishers and closed once who helped me
during this work directly or indirectly.

Finally I like to thanks to my full family without them I am nothing.

 Dedicated
to

My beloved parents, Md. Tazul Islam and Mrs.

Shamsunnahar

Also
My respected uncle-aunt, Md. Khademul Islam and Mrs.
Dilrose Ara
 Abstract

In this work we study a macroscopic traffic flow model known as Lighthill, Whitham and
Richards (LWR) model using a closure nonlinear density-velocity relationship which
yields a quasi-linear first order (hyperbolic) partial differential equation. We present the
derivation of the macroscopic traffic model and the analytic solution of the model by the
method of characteristics. We report the existence and uniqueness results of the
model. We also study the finite difference scheme as a numerical method for the
solution of the quasi-linear first order partial differential equation and study the stability
and error analysis of the numerical scheme. We discretize the traffic model by finite
difference method which leads to formulate a first order explicit upwind difference
scheme for the traffic flow model. We present the stability and well-posed-ness of the
traffic flow model. We project the traffic flow of a highway based on the explicit upwind
difference scheme for the traffic flow model, where the velocity and flux is modeled as a
nonlinear function of density. We perform numerical experiments by implementing the
numerical scheme and verify some qualitative behavior of the traffic flow for various
parameters.
 TRAFFIC FLOW SIMULATION BY USING A
MATHEMATICAL MODEL BASED ON A
NONLINEAR VELOCITY-DENSITY FUNCTION

Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements

for the degree of the Masters of Science
in
Mathematics

By-
Exam Roll: Math 060654
Reg. No: 17606
Session: 2005-06

Department of Mathematics
Jahangirnagar University
Savar Dhaka-1342
 Bangladesh

December 31, 2008

Declaration

I hereby announce the work which is being presented in this thesis entitled
“Traffic Flow Simulation by using a Mathematical Model based on a
nonlinear density-velocity function” submitted in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the decoration of the degree of Masters of Science in
Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Jahangirnagar University is my work
with proper citation and acknowledgement.

The work of this thesis has not been submitted by me for the award of any other
degrees in this university or any other universities.

Muhammad Humayun Kabir

 Certificate

This is to certify that Muhammad Humayun Kabir has been completed his M. Sc
Thesis work entitled “Traffic Flow Simulation by using a Mathematical
Model based on a nonlinear density-velocity function” under my
supervision and guidance in the Department of mathematics, Jahangirnagar
University. During this work, I found him very sincere, intelligent and hard
working.

I wish him all success.

Dr. Laek Sazzad Andallah

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
Jahangirnagar University
Savar, Dhaka-1342
 Dedicated
to

My beloved parents
and
My respected uncle-aunt