THE LANE EXPANSION EFFECT OF THE TOLLBOOTH SYSTEM ON THE HIGHWAY

Rui Jiang (), Bin Jia and Qing-Song Wu
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Rui Jiang: School of Engineering Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
Bin Jia: Institute of Systems Science, School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, P. R. China
Qing-Song Wu: School of Engineering Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2004, vol. 15, issue 05, 619-628

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the lane expansion effect of the tollbooth system. To this end, two typical values of randomization probabilityp:p=0.5andp=0.1are chosen. It is shown that forp=0.5, the full capacity of the single lane highway can be restored. However, forp=0.1, our simulations show that the full capacity of the single lane highway cannot be restored due to the existence of the merge section in the lane expansion section. Moreover, we have investigated the dependence of road capacity on the length of lane expansion section as well as the effects of the positions of the tollbooths in the lane expansion section under different values ofp.

Keywords: Traffic flow; tollbooth; capacity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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