Effect of vehicles' changing lanes in the Biham–Middleton–Levine traffic flow model

Qi-Lang Li (), Rui Jiang (), Zhong-Jun Ding, Jie Min and Bing-Hong Wang ()
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Qi-Lang Li: School of Mathematics and Physics, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230601, P. R. China
Rui Jiang: School of Engineering Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
Zhong-Jun Ding: School of Transportation Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, P. R. China
Jie Min: School of Mathematics and Physics, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230601, P. R. China
Bing-Hong Wang: Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China;

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2015, vol. 26, issue 03, 1-12

Abstract: This paper studies the effect of vehicles' changing lanes in the original Biham–Middleton–Levine traffic flow model. According to local vehicular information, the dynamics allows for vehicles changing their rows or columns. Simulation results show that the intermediate stable phase identified in the original model can be observed and maintained in a wide range of the vehicle density in our model. Some new kinds of space configurations have been first presented and discussed. One also notes that the geometric structure of such intermediate stable phases is highly regular for square and rectangular aspect rations.

Keywords: Traffic flow; space configuration; intermediate stable phase; cellular automata; Biham–Middleton–Levine model; 89.40.-a; 05.50.+q; 64.60.Cn; 05.70.Ln (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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