A CELLULAR AUTOMATON MODEL FOR THE TRAFFIC FLOW IN BOGOTÁ

L. E. Olmos () and J. D. Muñoz ()
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L. E. Olmos: Dpto. de Física, Univ. Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
J. D. Muñoz: Dpto. de Física, Univ. Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá D.C., Colombia

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2004, vol. 15, issue 10, 1397-1411

Abstract: In this work, we propose a car cellular automaton model that reproduces the experimental behavior of traffic flows in Bogotá. Our model includes three elements: hysteresis between the acceleration and brake gaps, a delay time in the acceleration, and an instantaneous brake. The parameters of our model were obtained from direct measurements inside a car on motorways in Bogotá. Next, we simulated this model with the flux-density fundamental diagram for a single-lane traffic road and compared it with experimental data. Our simulations are in very good agreement with the experimental measurements, not just in the shape of the fundamental diagram, but also in the numerical values for both the road capacity and the density of maximal flux. Our model reproduces, too, the qualitative behavior of shock waves. In addition, our work identifies the periodic boundary conditions as the source of false peaks in the fundamental diagram, when short roads are simulated, that have also been found in previous works. The phase transition between free and congested traffic is also investigated by computing both the relaxation time and the order parameter. Our work shows how different the traffic behavior from one city to another can be, and how important to determine the model parameters for each city.

Keywords: Cellular automaton models; fundamental diagrams; jams; shock waves; jamming transitions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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