A new cellular automaton for signal controlled traffic flow based on driving behaviors

作者：Wang Yang; Chen Yan-Yan^*

来源：Chinese Physics B, 2015, 24(3): 038902.

DOI：10.1088/1674-1056/24/3/038902

• cellular automata
• signalized traffic systems
• spontaneous traffic breakdown
• driving behaviors

The complexity of signal controlled traffic largely stems from the various driving behaviors developed in response to the traffic signal. However, the existing models take a few driving behaviors into account and consequently the traffic dynamics has not been completely explored. Therefore, a new cellular automaton model, which incorporates the driving behaviors typically manifesting during the different stages when the vehicles are moving toward a traffic light, is proposed in this paper. Numerical simulations have demonstrated that the proposed model can produce the spontaneous traffic breakdown and the dissolution of the over-saturated traffic phenomena. Furthermore, the simulation results indicate that the slow-to-start behavior and the inch-forward behavior can foster the traffic breakdown. Particularly, it has been discovered that the over-saturated traffic can be revised to be an under-saturated state when the slow-down behavior is activated after the spontaneous breakdown. Finally, the contributions of the driving behaviors on the traffic breakdown have been examined.

• 出版日期2015-3
• 单位北京工业大学