THE EFFECTS OF TAXI ON TRAFFIC FLOW

Tie-Qiao Tang (), Yan Li and Hai-Jun Huang ()
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Tie-Qiao Tang: School of Transportation, Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing 100191, P. R. China;
Yan Li: School of Transportation, Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing 100191, P. R. China

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2009, vol. 20, issue 10, 1537-1546

Abstract: Taxi will come to one complete halt during the boarding/alighting period and might produce stop-and-go without passengers, so it often produces traffic interruption on the single-lane system. Tanget al.pointed out that the traffic flow model [Chin. Phys.18, 975 (2009)] can be used to directly describe various micro phenomena resulted by traffic interruption on the single-lane system, if we properly define the traffic interruption probability, so in this paper we adopt this model to study the micro phenomena resulted by taxi on the single-lane system. The numerical results show that this model can describe the effects that taxi has on the trails of each vehicle's motion and the evolutions of the flow and the density on the single-lane system, but that these effects are relevant to the initial conditions of the whole system.

Keywords: Car-following; taxi; traffic interruption; 89.40-a; -45.70.vn; -05.70.Fh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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