 Congestion of point-to-point mobile objectsS. Maniccam Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2004, vol. 331, issue 3, 669-681 Abstract: Traffic congestion in point-to-point movement is studied using four simple traffic models. The four traffic models studied are movement between randomly chosen starting and destination points, back and forth movement between same two points, movement with preference of horizontal and vertical paths, and movement along shortest paths. The congestion properties of these traffic models are studied using computer simulation. It is found that the first and the third model has a sudden phase transition from free flow to jammed state at a critical system density, the second model has a gradual transition from free flow to jammed state, and the fourth model results in a simple deadlock. The phase transition properties and the critical densities are studied in detail. The emerging traffic jam patterns of the traffic models are also presented. Keywords: Point-to-point movement; Traffic congestion; Phase transition; Traffic models (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:331:y:2004:i:3:p:669-681 DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2003.06.001 Access Statistics for this article Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications is currently edited by K. A. Dawson, J. O. Indekeu, H.E. Stanley and C. Tsallis More articles in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications from Elsevier |
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