Empirical analysis and simulation of the concave growth pattern of traffic oscillations
Junfang Tian,
Rui Jiang,
Bin Jia,
Ziyou Gao and
Shoufeng Ma
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2016, vol. 93, issue PA, 338-354
Abstract:
This paper has investigated the growth pattern of traffic oscillations in the NGSIM vehicle trajectories data, via measuring the standard deviation of vehicle velocity involved in oscillations. We found that the standard deviation of the velocity increases in a concave way along vehicles in the oscillations. Moreover, all datasets collapse into a single concave curve, which indicates a universal evolution law of oscillations. A comparison with traffic experiment shows that the empirical and the experimental results are highly compatible and can be fitted by a single concave curve, which demonstrates that qualitatively the growth pattern of oscillations is not affected by type of bottleneck and lane changing behavior. We have shown theoretically that small disturbance with an angular frequency ω increases in a convex way in the initial stage in the traditional models presuming a unique relationship between speed and density, which obviously deviates from our findings. Simulations show that stochastic models in which the traffic state dynamically spans a 2D region in the speed-spacing plane can qualitatively or even quantitatively reproduce the concave growth pattern of traffic oscillations.
Keywords: Traffic oscillation; Concave growth pattern; Car following behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2016.08.001
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