Recent developments and research needs in modeling lane changing

Z Zheng - Transportation research part B: methodological, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper comprehensively reviews recent developments in modeling lane-changing
behavior. The major lane changing models in the literature are categorized into two groups …

Traffic and related self-driven many-particle systems

D Helbing - Reviews of modern physics, 2001 - APS
Since the subject of traffic dynamics has captured the interest of physicists, many surprising
effects have been revealed and explained. Some of the questions now understood are the …

Predictive cruise control: Utilizing upcoming traffic signal information for improving fuel economy and reducing trip time

B Asadi, A Vahidi - IEEE transactions on control systems …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief proposes the use of upcoming traffic signal information within the vehicle's
adaptive cruise control system to reduce idle time at stop lights and fuel consumption. To …

Statistical physics of vehicular traffic and some related systems

D Chowdhury, L Santen, A Schadschneider - Physics Reports, 2000 - Elsevier
In the so-called “microscopic” models of vehicular traffic, attention is paid explicitly to each
individual vehicle each of which is represented by a “particle”; the nature of the “interactions” …

State-of-the-art of vehicular traffic flow modelling

SP Hoogendoorn, PHL Bovy - … Part I: Journal of Systems and …, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
Nowadays traffic flow and congestion is one of the main societal and economical problems
related to transportation in industrialized countries. In this respect, managing traffic in …

Cellular automata microsimulation for modeling bi-directional pedestrian walkways

VJ Blue, JL Adler - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2001 - Elsevier
Pedestrian flow is inherently complex, more so than vehicular flow, and development of
microscopic models of pedestrian flow has been a daunting task for researchers. This paper …

Cellular automata models of road traffic

S Maerivoet, B De Moor - Physics reports, 2005 - Elsevier
In this paper, we give an elaborate and understandable review of traffic cellular automata
(TCA) models, which are a class of computationally efficient microscopic traffic flow models …

Two lane traffic simulations using cellular automata

M Rickert, K Nagel, M Schreckenberg… - Physica A: Statistical …, 1996 - Elsevier
We examine a simple two-lane cellular automaton based upon the single-lane CA
introduced by Nagel and Schreckenberg. We point out important parameters defining the …

Two-lane traffic rules for cellular automata: A systematic approach

K Nagel, DE Wolf, P Wagner, P Simon - Physical Review E, 1998 - APS
Microscopic modeling of multilane traffic is usually done by applying heuristic lane changing
rules and often with unsatisfying results. Recently, a cellular automaton model for two-lane …

Agent-based modelling and simulation of urban evacuation: relative effectiveness of simultaneous and staged evacuation strategies

X Chen, FB Zhan - Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigates the effectiveness of simultaneous and staged evacuation strategies
using agent-based simulation. In the simultaneous strategy, all residents are informed to …