@Article{CiCP-33-3, author = {Shaoshuai, Chu and Kurganov, Alexander and Saeed, Mohammadian and Zuduo, Zheng}, title = {Fifth-Order A-WENO Path-Conservative Central-Upwind Scheme for Behavioral Non-Equilibrium Traffic Models}, journal = {Communications in Computational Physics}, year = {2023}, volume = {33}, number = {3}, pages = {692--732}, abstract = {
Non-equilibrium hyperbolic traffic models can be derived as continuum
approximations of car-following models and in many cases the resulting continuum
models are non-conservative. This leads to numerical difficulties, which seem to have
discouraged further development of complex behavioral continuum models, which is
a significant research need.
In this paper, we develop a robust numerical scheme that solves hyperbolic traffic
flow models based on their non-conservative form. We develop a fifth-order alternative weighted essentially non-oscillatory (A-WENO) finite-difference scheme based
on the path-conservative central-upwind (PCCU) method for several non-equilibrium
traffic flow models. In order to treat the non-conservative product terms, we use a
path-conservative technique. To this end, we first apply the recently proposed second-order finite-volume PCCU scheme to the traffic flow models, and then extend this
scheme to the fifth-order of accuracy via the finite-difference A-WENO framework.
The designed schemes are applied to three different traffic flow models and tested on
a number of challenging numerical examples. Both schemes produce quite accurate results though the resolution achieved by the fifth-order A-WENO scheme is higher. The
proposed scheme in this paper sets the stage for developing more robust and complex
continuum traffic flow models with respect to human psychological factors.