Autonomous vehicles driving traffic: The Cauchy problem

Abstract

This paper deals with the Cauchy problem for a PDE‑ODE model, where a system of two conservation laws, namely the Two-Phase macroscopic model proposed in [Rinaldo M. Colombo, Francesca Marcellini, and Michel Rascle, $\href{https://doi.org/10.1137/090752468}{\textrm{SIAM J. Appl. Math., 70(7):2652–2666, 2010}}$], is coupled with an ordinary differential equation describing the trajectory of an autonomous vehicle (AV), which aims to control the traffic flow. Under suitable assumptions, we prove a global-in-time existence result.