An information-based traffic control in a public conveyance system: Reduced clustering and enhanced efficiency

Akiyasu Tomoeda, Katsuhiro Nishinari, Debashish Chowdhury and Andreas Schadschneider

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2007, vol. 384, issue 2, 600-612

Abstract: A new public conveyance model applicable to buses and trains is proposed in this paper by using stochastic cellular automaton. We have found the optimal density of vehicles, at which the average velocity becomes maximum, significantly depends on the number of stops and passengers behavior of getting on a vehicle at stops. The efficiency of the hail-and-ride system is also discussed by comparing the different behavior of passengers. Moreover, we have found that a big cluster of vehicles is divided into small clusters, by incorporating information of the number of vehicles between successive stops.

Keywords: Traffic; Traffic control; Public conveyance; Bus route model; Asymmetric simple exclusion process; Cellular automation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.05.047

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