A statistical approach to vehicular traffic

Freund JA, Pöschel T (1995)

Publication Language: English

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article, Original article

Publication year: 1995

Journal

Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications Elsevier

Publisher: Elsevier

Book Volume: 219

Pages Range: 95-113

DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(95)00170-C

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. © 1995.

Authors with CRIS profile

Thorsten Pöschel Lehrstuhl für Multiscale Simulation of Particulate Systems (MSS)

Involved external institutions

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Freund, J.A., & Pöschel, T. (1995). A statistical approach to vehicular traffic. Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications, 219, 95-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-4371(95)00170-C

MLA:

Freund, Jan A., and Thorsten Pöschel. "A statistical approach to vehicular traffic." Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications 219 (1995): 95-113.

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