## Abstract and Applied Analysis

### Fractal Dynamical Model of Vehicular Traffic Flow within the Local Fractional Conservation Laws

#### Abstract

We suggest a new model of the scale conservation equation in the mathematical theory of vehicular traffic flow on the fractal network based on the local fractional calculus.

#### Article information

Source
Abstr. Appl. Anal., Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 635760, 5 pages.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 2 October 2014

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aaa/1412273292

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1155/2014/635760

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3193530

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
07022791

#### Citation

Wang, Long-Fei; Yang, Xiao-Jun; Baleanu, Dumitru; Cattani, Carlo; Zhao, Yang. Fractal Dynamical Model of Vehicular Traffic Flow within the Local Fractional Conservation Laws. Abstr. Appl. Anal. 2014 (2014), Article ID 635760, 5 pages. doi:10.1155/2014/635760. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aaa/1412273292

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