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Transportation engineering

a continuum model treating traffic as a compressible fluid whose density waves travel along the road.

In transportation engineering, Lighthill-Whitham-Richards model refers to a continuum model treating traffic as a compressible fluid whose density waves travel along the road. This meaning comes from Lighthill (1955) in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences.[1]

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Lighthill, M. J., & Whitham, G. B. (1955). On kinematic waves II. A theory of traffic flow on long crowded roads. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 229(1178), 317-345. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1955.0089

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