Slowdown-induced phase transitions in vehicular traffic

Authors

  • Damian Nale Dailisan National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
  • May Tan Lim National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman

Abstract

The occurrence of slowdowns plays a significant role in the flow of traffic. Vehicles that frequently slow down, drop off, and pick up passengers anywhere, often impede the flow of traffic. Using a modified Nagel-Schrekenberg cellular automata model, we analyzed the interplay of road density, random slowdowns, and vehicle speed. We found that increasing random slowdowns beyond a critical value (pλ ≈ [0.2, 0.3, 0.4] for ρ = [0.20, 0.15, 0.10] respectively) can force a transition from a free flowing traffic into a state where interactions between vehicles reduces the average speed on the road.

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Article ID

SPP-2017-3B-01

Section

Computational Physics and Simulations

Published

2017-06-07

How to Cite

[1]
DN Dailisan and MT Lim, Slowdown-induced phase transitions in vehicular traffic, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 35, SPP-2017-3B-01 (2017). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/114.