Traffic Games: Modeling Freeway Traffic with Game Theory

Luis E Cortés-Berrueco, Carlos Gershenson and Christopher R Stephens

PLOS ONE, 2016, vol. 11, issue 11, 1-34

Abstract: We apply game theory to a vehicular traffic model to study the effect of driver strategies on traffic flow. The resulting model inherits the realistic dynamics achieved by a two-lane traffic model and aims to incorporate phenomena caused by driver-driver interactions. To achieve this goal, a game-theoretic description of driver interaction was developed. This game-theoretic formalization allows one to model different lane-changing behaviors and to keep track of mobility performance. We simulate the evolution of cooperation, traffic flow, and mobility performance for different modeled behaviors. The analysis of these results indicates a mobility optimization process achieved by drivers’ interactions.

Date: 2016
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