THE INFLUENCE OF TRUCKS ON TRAFFIC FLOW — AN INVESTIGATION ON THE NAGEL–SCHRECKENBERG-MODEL

Anja Ebersbach (), Johannes Schneider (), Ingo Morgenstern and Rainer Hammwöhner
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Anja Ebersbach: Lehrstuhl für Informationswissenschaft, Universität Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany
Johannes Schneider: Fakultät Physik, Universität Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany;
Ingo Morgenstern: Fakultät Physik, Universität Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany
Rainer Hammwöhner: Lehrstuhl für Informationswissenschaft, Universität Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2000, vol. 11, issue 04, 837-842

Abstract: A few years ago Nagel and Schreckenberg introduced a model for traffic flow,1which, though quite simple, is able to reproduce the basic properties of traffic. Meanwhile many variations of the model have been developed, part of them concentrate on introducing an inhomogenous fleet of cars with different maximum velocities.Here we also want to study the effect of introducing a certain fraction of vehicles with a lower maximum velocity ("trucks") to the Nagel–Schreckenberg-model. We give a detailed description of this effect and focus on the time development of the influence of trucks on traffic flow.

Keywords: Nagel–Schreckenberg-Model; Nonequilibrium Physics; Time Development; Trucks; Cellular Automata (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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