Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition) ›› 2002, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (4): 363-370.

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ONE-DIMENSIONAL CELLULAR AUTOMATON MODEL OF TRAFFIC FLOW BASED ON CAR-FOLLOWING IDEA

董力耘, 薛郁, 戴世强   

  1. Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, P.R.China
  • 收稿日期:2000-11-28 修回日期:2001-11-09 出版日期:2002-04-18 发布日期:2002-04-18
  • 通讯作者: DAI Shi-qiang
  • 基金资助:

    the National Natural Scicnce Foundation of China (19872042;19932020);Shanghai Postdoctoral Science Foundation

ONE-DIMENSIONAL CELLULAR AUTOMATON MODEL OF TRAFFIC FLOW BASED ON CAR-FOLLOWING IDEA

DONG Li-yun, XUE Yu, DAI Shi-qiang   

  1. Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, P.R.China
  • Received:2000-11-28 Revised:2001-11-09 Online:2002-04-18 Published:2002-04-18
  • Supported by:

    the National Natural Scicnce Foundation of China (19872042;19932020);Shanghai Postdoctoral Science Foundation

摘要: An improved one-dimensional CA (Cellular Automaton) traffic model was proposed to describe the highway traffic under the periodic boundary conditions. This model was based on the idea of the car-following model, which claims that the motion of a vehicle at one time step depends on both its headway and the synchronous motion of the front vehicle, thus including indirectly the influence of its sub-neighboring vehicle. In addition, the so-called safety distance was introduced to consider the deceleration behavior of vehicles and the stochastic factor was taken into account by introducing the deceleration probability. Meanwhile, the conditional deceleration in the model gives a better description of the phenomena observed on highways. It is found that there exists the metastability and hysteresis effect of traffic flow in the neighborhood of critical density under different initial conditions. Since this model gives a reasonable depiction of the motion of a single vehicle, it is easy to be extended to the case of traffic flow under the control of traffic lights in cities.

Abstract: An improved one-dimensional CA (Cellular Automaton) traffic model was proposed to describe the highway traffic under the periodic boundary conditions. This model was based on the idea of the car-following model, which claims that the motion of a vehicle at one time step depends on both its headway and the synchronous motion of the front vehicle, thus including indirectly the influence of its sub-neighboring vehicle. In addition, the so-called safety distance was introduced to consider the deceleration behavior of vehicles and the stochastic factor was taken into account by introducing the deceleration probability. Meanwhile, the conditional deceleration in the model gives a better description of the phenomena observed on highways. It is found that there exists the metastability and hysteresis effect of traffic flow in the neighborhood of critical density under different initial conditions. Since this model gives a reasonable depiction of the motion of a single vehicle, it is easy to be extended to the case of traffic flow under the control of traffic lights in cities.

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