Study on traffic states and jamming transitions for two-lane highway including a bus by using a model with calibrated optimal velocity function

Zhipeng Li and Yi Yi

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2014, vol. 406, issue C, 12-23

Abstract: In this paper, traffic states and jamming transitions on two-lane highway including a bus are studied by using a car following model with a calibrated optimal velocity function. We derive a new flow-density diagram with four distinctly separated traffic states, which is different from that of the earlier study obtained by applying the OVM with theoretical optimal velocity function. The spatio-temporal diagrams are presented to illustrate phase characteristics of each traffic state. It is found that the phase characteristic features of two of four states are different from any state of the earlier result, and traffic flow of state 2 and state 3 can reproduce some characteristics observed from empirical investigations such as centralized lane-changing, hanging tail of cluster, and synchronized flow. In addition, we have clarified the lane-changing behaviors and their effects on two-lane traffic flow including a bus. It is shown that the velocity oscillations behind the bus can help the lane-changing in state 2 and the behaviors of lane-changing are the important reason of forming of the synchronized flow in state 3. It is also concluded that lane-changing can only improve the current in the region of middle density.

Keywords: Traffic flow; Lane-changing; Traffic states (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2014.03.013

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