Flow Patterns of Cellular Automata and Optimal-velocity Traffic Models at Highway Bottlenecks

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2009-01-09

arxiv.org/abs/0901.1261v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases

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A bottleneck simulation of road traffic on a loop, using the deterministic cellular automata (CA) Nagel-Schreckenberg model with zero dawdling probability, reveals three types of stationary wave solutions. They consist of i) two shock waves, one at each bottleneck boundary, ii) one shock wave at the boundary and one on the "open" road, and iii) the trivial solution, i.e. homogeneous, uniform flow. These solutions are selected dynamically from a range of kinematicly permissible stationary shocks. This is similar in fashion to the wave selection in a bottleneck simulation of the optimal-velocity (OV) model, which is explained by a travelling wave phase-plane analysis of the corresponding continuum model. It is yet another strong indication that CA and OV models share certain underlying dynamics, although the former are discrete in space and time while the latter are continuous.

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