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Cellular automata model of traffic flow - study of diversity of cars

Danuta Makowiec ,  Wieslaw Miklaszewski 

Gdansk University, Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, (IFTiA UG), Wita Stwosza 57, Gdańsk 80-952, Poland

Abstract
Effect of large value assigned to the maximal car velocity on the fundamental diagrams in the Nagel-Schreckenberg model is studied by extended simulations. The function relating the flow in the congested traffic phase with the car density and deceleration probability is found numerically. Properties of the region of critical changes, so-called jamming transition parameters, are described in details.

The basic Na- Sch model modified by the assumption that for each car an individual velocity limit is assigned, is investigated in the aim to find the best supplementary rule allowing the jammed traffic to move with velocity larger than the slowest driving vehicle. The choice of suplementary rules is motivated by observations of typical Polish drivers behavior. By simulations, it is checked: (a) a speed limit of the slowest car is changed and \or (b) a speed limit of a car with zero gap behind is increased . It is shown that both rules increase the mean velocity; (b) rule influences the character of congested traffic -- cars move though at low velocity.

 

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Presentation: Oral at 2 Ogólnopolskie Sympozjum "Fizyka w Ekonomii i Naukach Społecznych", Sociophysics, by Danuta Makowiec
See On-line Journal of 2 Ogólnopolskie Sympozjum "Fizyka w Ekonomii i Naukach Społecznych"

Submitted: 2006-03-03 10:10
Revised:   2009-06-07 00:44