A Statistical Approach to Vehicular Traffic
Published 1 January 2002
Jan A. Freund, Thorsten Pöschel
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Abstract: A two–dimensional cellular automaton is introduced to model the flow and jamming of vehicular traffic in cities. Each site of the automaton represents a crossing where a finite number of cars can wait approaching the crossing from each of the four directions. The flow of cars obeys realistic traffic rules. We investigate the dependence of the average velocity of cars on the global traffic density. At a critical threshold for the density the average velocity reduces drastically caused by jamming. For the low density regime we provide analytical results which agree with the numerical results. Keywords:vehicular traffic, kombinatorics 1
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