LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Towards a realistic microscopic description of highway traffic

By W. Knospe, L. Santen, Andreas Schadschneider, Michael Schreckenberg. 2000

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Simple cellular automata models are able to reproduce the basic properties of highway traffic. The comparison with empirical data for microscopic quantities requires a more detailed description of the elementary dynamics. Based on existing cellular automata models, we propose an improved discrete model incorporating anticipation effects, reduced acceleration capabilities and an enhanced interaction horizon for braking. The modified model is able to reproduce the three phases (free-flow, synchronized, and stop-and-go) observed in real traffic. Furthermore we find a good agreement with detailed empirical single-vehicle data in all phases.

Subfields: Control and Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ocean Engineering

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In Control and Systems Engineering

1. Luciano da Fontoura Costa
2. P. R. Villas Boas
3. Francisco Aparecido Rodrigues
4. Gonzalo Travieso
5. Nicola Bellomo
6. Christian Dogbé
7. F. Benjamin Zhan
8. Xuwei Chen

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Kai Nagel
2. Peter Wagner
3. Richard Woesler

In Ocean Engineering

1. Nicola Bellomo
2. Christian Dogbé
3. F. Benjamin Zhan
4. Xuwei Chen

Citations in the corpus

• Still Flowing: Approaches to Traffic Flow and Traffic Jam Modeling (2003, background): “There are also models that display more complex behavior, e.g., Wiedemann (1974), Knospe et al. (2000), Tomer et al. (2000), Treiber et al. (1999a), and Kerner and Osipov (2002).”
• Analyzing and modeling real-world phenomena with complex networks: a survey of applications (2007, background): “The dynamics on road networks has been studied for years, with many models proposed [297, 298, 299, 300, 301], ranging from macroscopic models based on the kinetic gas theory or fluid dynamics to microscopic approaches with equations for each car in the network.”