The Cauchy problem at a node with buffer

International audienceWe consider the Lighthill-Whitham-Richards traffic flow model on a network composed by an arbitrary number of incoming and outgoing arcs connected together by a node with a buffer. Similar to [M. Herty, J.-P. Lebacque, and S. Moutari. A novel model for intersections of vehicular traffic flow. Netw. Heterog. Media, 4(4):813–826 (electronic), 2009], we define the solution to the Riemann problem at the node and we prove existence and well posedness of solutions to the Cauchy problem, by using the wave-front tracking technique and the generalized tangent vectors