Ideal and disordered two-lane traffic models

R.J. Harris and R.B. Stinchcombe

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2005, vol. 354, issue C, 582-596

Abstract: We introduce a simple lattice-based exclusion model which can be considered as a crude representation of traffic on a two-lane motorway. The model is a two-lane generalization of the asymmetric simple exclusion process which is known to reproduce some of the features of single-lane traffic such as shocks and jams. A mean-field analysis for the steady state of the pure two-lane system is supported by Monte Carlo simulations. We then discuss the effect of quenched bond disorder on the current–density relation and draw comparisons with the disordered single-lane case.

Keywords: Nonequilibrium physics; Two-lane traffic; Disorder; Asymmetric exclusion process (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.02.030

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