A non-local traffic flow model for 1-to-1 junctions with buffer

Abstract

Inthispaper,weintroduceanon-localPDE-ODEtrafficmodeldevotedtothedescriptionof a 1-to-1 junction with buffer. We present an existence result in the free flow case as well as a numerical method to approximate weak solutions in the general case. In addition, we show a maximum principle which is uniform in the non-local interaction range. Further, we exploit the limit models as the support of the kernel tends to zero and to infinity. We compare them with other already existing models for traffic and production flow and present numerical examples.