A new microscopic traffic-flow model based on the spatiotemporal continuous system concept considering nonlinear human response

Masaki Tanaka and Jun Tanimoto

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2024, vol. 648, issue C

Abstract: A brand-new traffic model is introduced to precisely simulate the individual movement of vehicles, departing from the traditional macroscopic perspective (Eulerian scope or fluid dynamics concept) to adopt a microscopic approach (Lagrangian scope). This model is built on the first principle of Newton’s kinetic equation, explicitly incorporating nonlinear relations to represent human responses to a physical stimulus (observed information), such as the velocity gap between one’s own vehicle and a certain targeted one or the gap to a preceding vehicle, unlike the conventional car-following concept. The model posits that a driver’s recognition occurs intermittently rather than continuously, following specific probabilistic distributions of which the formulation is physically justified. Overall, the model can be described as a spatiotemporally continuous formulation unlike cellular automaton (CA) traffic models, crucial for capturing traffic dynamics at the micro and macro levels. The model is validated using a real traffic-flow dataset from a highway, and the results of the conventional CA traffic model are compared with those of the present one” along with a note for authorial verification. Animated simulations confirm that the present model can reproduce realistic flow dynamics characterized by smoother acceleration and deceleration compared to the conventional CA traffic model. The complete simulation source code for replicating the model is made publicly available.

Keywords: traffic flow; microscopic model; spatiotemporal continuous system; nonlinear relations between human response and stimulus (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2024.129930

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