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PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
Volume 391, Issue 8, Pages 2720-2729Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.12.018
Keywords
Traffic flow; Urban traffic; Bicycle traffic; Discrete stochastic model; Simulation; Cellular automata
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- Irish Research Council for Science, engineering and Technology (IRCSET)
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As 'greening' of all aspects of human activity becomes mainstream, transportation science is also increasingly focused around sustainability. Modal co-existence between motorised and non-motorised traffic on urban networks is, in this context, of particular interest for traffic flow modelling. The main modelling problems here are posed by the heterogeneity of vehicles, including size and dynamics, and by the complex interactions at intersections. Herein we address these with a novel technique, based on one-dimensional cellular automata components, for modelling network infrastructure and its occupancy by vehicles. We use this modelling approach, together with a corresponding vehicle behaviour model, to simulate combined car and bicycle traffic for two elemental scenarios examples of components that would be used in the building of an arbitrary network. Results of simulations performed on these scenarios, (i) a stretch of road and (ii) an intersection causing conflict between cars and bicycles sharing a lane, are presented and analysed. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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