Resonance, criticality, and emergence in city traffic investigated in cellular automaton models

Varas, A.; Cornejo, MD; Toledo, BA; Muñoz, V; Rogan, J.; Zarama, R.; Valdivia JA

Abstract

The complex behavior that occurs when traffic lights are synchronized is studied for a row of interacting cars. The system is modeled through a cellular automaton. Two strategies are considered: all lights in phase and a "green wave" with a propagating green signal. It is found that the mean velocity near the resonant condition follows a critical scaling law. For the green wave, it is shown that the mean velocity scaling law holds even for random separation between traffic lights and is not dependent on the density. This independence on car density is broken when random perturbations are considered in the car velocity. Random velocity perturbations also have the effect of leading the system to an emergent state, where cars move in clusters, but with an average velocity which is independent of traffic light switching for large injection rates. © 2009 The American Physical Society.

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Título según WOS: Resonance, criticality, and emergence in city traffic investigated in cellular automaton models
Título según SCOPUS: Resonance, criticality, and emergence in city traffic investigated in cellular automaton models
Título de la Revista: PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volumen: 80
Número: 5
Editorial: AMER PHYSICAL SOC
Fecha de publicación: 2009
Idioma: English
URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056108
DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056108

Notas: ISI, SCOPUS