About Dynamical Systems Appearing in the Microscopic Traffic Modeling

Details About Dynamical Systems Appearing in the Microscopic Traffic Modeling About Dynamical Systems Appearing in the Microscopic Traffic Modeling

2009-11-24

arxiv.org/abs/0911.4672v2

Mathematics

Optimization and Control

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Motivated by microscopic traffic modeling, we analyze dynamical systems which have a piecewise linear concave dynamics not necessarily monotonic. We introduce a deterministic Petri net extension where edges may have negative weights. The dynamics of these Petri nets are well-defined and may be described by a generalized matrix with a submatrix in the standard algebra with possibly negative entries, and another submatrix in the minplus algebra. When the dynamics is additively homogeneous, a generalized additive eigenvalue may be introduced, and the ergodic theory may be used to define a growth rate under additional technical assumptions. In the traffic example of two roads with one junction, we compute explicitly the eigenvalue and we show, by numerical simulations, that these two quantities (the additive eigenvalue and the growth rate) are not equal, but are close to each other. With this result, we are able to extend the well-studied notion of fundamental traffic diagram (the average flow as a function of the car density on a road) to the case of two roads with one junction and give a very simple analytic approximation of this diagram where four phases appear with clear traffic interpretations. Simulations show that the fundamental diagram shape obtained is also valid for systems with many junctions. To simulate these systems, we have to compute their dynamics, which are not quite simple. For building them in a modular way, we introduce generalized parallel, series and feedback compositions of piecewise linear concave dynamics.

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