An Improved Cellular Automata Traffic Flow Model Considering Driving Styles

Tianjun Feng, Keyi Liu () and Chunyan Liang
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Tianjun Feng: School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Jilin Jianzhu University, Changchun 130118, China
Keyi Liu: School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Jilin Jianzhu University, Changchun 130118, China
Chunyan Liang: School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Jilin Jianzhu University, Changchun 130118, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 2, 1-19

Abstract: An improved cellular automata model (CA model) considering driving styles is proposed to analyze traffic flow characteristics and study traffic congestion’s dissipation mechanism. The data were taken from a particular case in the Next Generation Simulation (NGSIM) program, which selected US-101 as the survey location from 7:50 a.m.–8:05 a.m. to investigate vehicle trajectory information. Different driving styles and the differences in vehicle parameters (speed, acceleration, deceleration, etc.) were obtained using principal component analysis and the k-means clustering method. The selected model was proposed for improvement based on analyzing the existing CA models and combining them with the actual road conditions. Considerations of driving styles and two operation mechanisms (over-acceleration and speed adaptation) were introduced in the improved model. The result obtained after the traffic simulation shows that the improved CA model is effective, and the mutual transformation of different traffic flow phases can be simulated. In the improved CA model, dissipating traffic congestion effectively and balancing the overall flow of the road are realized to improve the traffic capacity up to around 115% compared to the NaSch model and meet the demand of all kinds of drivers expecting to drive at the safest distance, which provides a theoretical basis for relieving traffic congestion. The various driving styles in terms of safety, comfort, and effectiveness are performed differently in the improved CA model. An aggressive driving style contributes to increasing traffic capacity up to around 181% compared to a calm driving style, while the calm style contributes to maintaining traffic flow stability.

Keywords: cellular automata model; driving styles; traffic flow; traffic simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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