KINEMATIC WAVE PROPERTIES OF ANISOTROPIC DYNAMICS MODEL FOR TRAFFIC FLOW

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城市道路交通问题与交通流模型

分析了目前城市道路交通存在的严重问题．从连续性描述、统计描述、离散描述3种研究方式,综述了交通流流体力学模型、气体动力论模型、跟驰和元胞自动机模型的研究进展,分析了主要交通流模型的建模思想、动力学方程(或演化规则)以及研究方法,展望了今后交通流模型的发展趋势．     

考虑道路信息和转向灯的可换道BML模型

车辆换道是司机为获得更好行驶条件而采用的常见措施, 而转向灯对车辆换道行为有重要的指导作用. 本文在BML (Biham-Middleton-Levine)模型的基础上加以改进, 提出了综合考虑道路信息和前车转向灯影响的可换道BML模型. 当车辆无法前行时, 如满足换道条件, 则将道路信息(车道密度及平均速度)和转向灯影响量化为车辆换道概率, 确定车辆是否可以换道. 通过数值模拟, 研究了周期边界条件下车辆换道行为对有、无交通灯控制的两种BML模型发生相变的临界密度以及系统通行能力的影响. 模拟结果表明对于无交通灯BML模型, 引入换道规则可以明显提高系统发生相变的临界密度, 在较小尺度下该临界密度接近有交通灯BML模型, 换道效果明显, 并发现了一种新的局部拥堵和自由流的共存相, 讨论了该共存相的生成和演化机制. 在较高密度下局部阻塞将演化为全局拥堵; 对于有交通灯BML模型, 引入换道规则对系统发生相变的临界密度没有明显的影响, 但相变的过渡区域更窄. 这表明有交通灯时, 换道虽然可以改变局部交通特征, 但难以显著影响交通系统的全局特征.      

Empirical test of a microscopic three-phase traffic theory

A review of dynamic nonlinear features of spatiotemporal congested patterns in freeway traffic is presented. The basis of the review is a comparison of theoretical features of the congested patterns that are shown by a microscopic traffic flow model in the context of the Kerner's three-phase traffic theory and empirical microscopic and macroscopic pattern characteristics measured on different freeways over various days and years. In this test of the microscopic three-phase traffic flow theory, a model of an "open" road is applied: Empirical time-dependence of traffic demand and drivers' destinations are used at the upstream model boundaries. At downstream model boundary conditions for vehicle freely leaving a modeling freeway section(s) are given. Spatiotemporal congested patterns emerge, develop, and dissolve in this open freeway model with the same types of bottlenecks as those in empirical observations. It is found that microscopic three-phase traffic models can explain all known macroscopic and microscopic empirical congested pattern features (e.g., probabilistic breakdown phenomenon as a first-order phase transition from free flow to synchronized flow, moving jam emergence in synchronized flow rather than in free flow, spatiotemporal features of synchronized flow and general congested patterns at freeway bottlenecks, intensification of downstream congestion due to upstream congestion at adjacent bottlenecks). It turns out that microscopic optimal velocity (OV) functions and time headway distributions are not necessarily qualitatively different, even if local congested traffic behavior is qualitatively different. Model performance with respect to spatiotemporal pattern emergence and evolution cannot be tested using these traffic characteristics. The reason for this is that important spatiotemporal features of congested traffic patterns are lost in these and many other macroscopic and microscopic traffic characteristics, which are widely used as the empirical basis for a test of traffic flow models. PACS: 89.40. + k, 47.54. + r, 64.60.Cn, 64.60.Lx     

Stabilized finite element method for simulation of freeway traffic

The modeling of traffic flow is a key tool to simulate and predict the behavior of traffic systems. Macroscopic traffic simulation models are based on advection dominated coupled non-linear partial differential equations. The solution of such advection dominated equations with the method of finite elements is leading to the development of stabilization techniques. The choice of suitable stabilization parameters is often application-dependent. A stabilized finite element procedure on the basis of a Galerkin/least-square approximation is presented for systems of transient advection-dominated equations. A general rule for computing suitable element stabilization parameters is outlined which uses the spectral radius of the differential operators and the specific element expansion. The application of this approximation to a macroscopic traffic model shows the applicability of this approach. Simulation results of typical phenomena of jam formation in freeway traffic are presented.     

Continuum modeling for two-lane traffic flow

In this paper, we study the continuum modeling of traffic dynamics for two-lane freeways. A new dynamics model is proposed, which contains the speed gradient-based momentum equations derived from a car-following theory suited to two-lane traffic flow. The conditions for securing the linear stability of the new model are presented. Numerical tests are carried out and some nonequilibrium phenomena are observed, such as small disturbance instability, stop-and-go waves, local clusters and phase transition. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (70521001) The English text was polished by Yunming Chen.     

A cellular automaton model for a bridge traffic bottleneck

A cellular automaton (CA) model is proposed in this paper to analyze a bridge traffic bottleneck. The simulation results with this model show that there are several phase transitions in the traffic average density, velocity and flow for each lane under a periodic boundary condition. An unstable phase in the traffic average density and velocity for the upstream and downstream lanes of the bridge is shown in a range of initial traffic densities. The critical points of the phase transitions and the phenomenon of the unstable phase found in the simulation are also explained with the mean-field theory.The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(70371067 and 10347001), the Key Project of Chinese Ministry of Education(02115) and the New Century Talent Plan of Guangxi Province in China(2001204).The English text was polished by Ron Marshall.     

A continuum traffic flow model with the consideration of coupling effect for two-lane freeways

A new higher-order continuum model is proposed by considering the coupling and lane changing effects of the vehicles on two adjacent lanes. A stability analysis of the proposed model provides the conditions that ensure its linear stability. Issues related to lane changing, shock waves and rarefaction waves, local clustering and phase transition are also investigated with numerical experiments. The simulation results show that the proposed model is capable of providing explanations to some particular traffic phenomena commonly observable in real traffic flows.     

三车道宏观交通流模型和扰动演化的数值研究

随着城市交通设施的完善,多车道在城市高速路交通中变得比较普遍. 三车道的出现使车辆变道易于实现,这就增加了交通问题的复杂性. 采用宏观交通流理论,建立了一种允许车辆变道的单向三车道连续交通流模型,以及与之相容的差分离散格式. 数值模拟了初始密度、扰动强度、初始扰动范围等因素对扰动传播和发展演化的影响. 结果显示:扰动波的传播方向和传播速度主要由初始未扰动车流密度大小决定;初始扰动范围的大小对扰动波幅值变化的影响比较大;某一条车道发生的扰动是否会影响其他车道,则受初始车流密度和扰动强度大小两个条件影响;在中等密度多车道交通流中,扰动波的发展过程呈现出复杂的非线性特征,数值格式的选择比单车道更加困难.      

基于场力的驾驶员影响因素交通流动力学模型

为研究驾驶员行为对道路交通的定量影响, 针对驾驶员行为特点, 综合考虑了驾驶员受到的直接物理影响和间接心理影响、相对速度以及车辆自身特性等因素, 结合场力、图论等方法, 提出了一种用于模拟考虑驾驶员影响因素的元胞自动机交通流动力学模型(简称IDCA模型). 通过计算机数值模拟, 研究了考虑驾驶员影响因素下车流演化机理及不同驾驶员类型对道路交通流的影响. 结果表明: 与NaSch模型相比, 本文建立的IDCA模型能够模拟得到丰富的交通行为, 再现了同步流等交通现象, 从速度波动和车头间距波动分析得出IDCA模型下道路交通流具有更强的稳定性, 堵塞消融效率更高. 此外得到了由不同驾驶员类型按不同比例组成的混合交通流的密度-速度图和密度-流量图, 发现在道路相同中高密度下, 激进型驾驶员所占的比例越大, 车辆速度与交通流量越大, 交通流量随着保守型驾驶员比例的增加而降低. 最后模拟实现了车辆高速跟驰现象, 得到小间距高速跟驰率超过7%的结果与实测结果相符合.      

非港湾式公交车站停靠特性的研究

基于Nagel-Schreckenberg交通流模型(简称NaSch模型),通过引入换道规则,建立包含非港湾式公交车站在内的双车道混合车辆元胞自动机交通流模型.计算机数值模拟表明,在周期边界条件下非港湾式公交车站路段的交通流存在一定的特性,在中等密度区域的拥挤流, 车辆的平均速度与车流密度存在一次幂律关系.      

Investigation of the adaptive features of a real-time nonlinear freeway traffic state estimator

This paper reports on real-data testing results for a real-time nonlinear freeway traffic state estimator with particular focus on its adaptive features. The pursued general approach to the real-time adaptive estimation of the complete traffic state in freeway stretches is based on stochastic nonlinear macroscopic traffic flow modeling and extended Kalman filtering that are outlined in the paper. One major innovative aspect of the estimator is the on-line estimation of important model parameters (free speed, critical density, and capacity) simultaneously with the estimation of traffic flow variables (flows, mean speeds, and densities), which leads to three significant advantages of the traffic state estimator: (1) avoidance of off-line model calibration; (2) automatic adaptation to changing external conditions (e.g. weather and light conditions); (3) enabling of incident alarms. The purpose of the reported real-data testing is, first, to demonstrate advantage (1) by investigating some basic properties of the estimator and, second, to explore some adaptive capabilities of the estimator that enable the other two advantages. The achieved testing results are quite satisfactory and promising for subsequent work.     

时滞车辆跟驰模型及其分岔现象

交通流车辆跟驰理论中, 由于生理因素, 造成司机在处理前方车辆变化信息和采取应对措施之间存在时间滞后. 即使是在自动巡航控制系统中, 设备在感知信息、计算所需操作并最终作动车辆这一过程中时滞也不可避免. 因此交通流跟驰理论的数学模型本质上应包含时滞. 时滞的存在对各种交通模式的出现及其相互演化产生怎样的影响? 这是值得我们关注的问题. 本文首先综述了各类时间和空间连续的时滞车辆跟驰模型.其次探究这类模型中存在的分岔现象的研究进展, 并指出目前研究中存在的不足. 最后提出作者的一些看法,运用时滞动力系统理论来深入挖掘富含参数的交通流时滞跟驰模型中隐藏的各种的非线性动力学现象, 这样既可以更好解释真实交通中的各种堵塞模式的形成及其演化机制, 又可以结合交通流参数平面内动力学行为从同步观点给出交通堵塞一种分类. 为交通管理部门的交通控制策略制定提供一定的参考依据, 减缓由于司机反应时滞等因素造成的交通堵塞的发生.     

A traffic flow model considering influence of car-following and its echo characteristics

Taking into account the driving characteristics of vehicles following the vehicle in front on the imported lane of urban signalized intersections, we introduce the acceleration parameters of the vehicle and consider the queue length and volatility of the acceleration that have been affected by the time of fixed signal cycles in the mixed traffic flow. Thereby, we obtain a mixed traffic flow cellular automaton model with the effect of acceleration on the imported lane. Through analyzing the results of numerical simulation, it is found that the maximum queue length and the volatility of acceleration have a great influence on the intersection lane mixed traffic flow with the different time of fixed signal cycles and considerably on traffic arriving strength within a certain range. When the intensity is in specific range, the longer the fixed signal cycle, the shorter the maximum queue length, and the greater the volatility of acceleration, which has smaller queue jam affecting the intersection lane mixed traffic flow. Meanwhile, the improved model can reproduce the evolution and propagation characteristics of gathering–dissipating of the traffic wave in the intersection lane mixed traffic flow.     

Simple lattice Boltzmann model for traffic flows

A lattice Boltzmann model with 5-bit lattice for traffic flows is proposed. Using the Chapman-Enskog expansion and multi-scale technique, we obtain the higher-order moments of equilibrium distribution function. A simple traffic light problem is simulated by using the present lattie Boltzmann model, and the result agrees well with analytical solution.     

Modeling non-equilibrium traffic dynamics in a Lagrangian framework

In this paper, we propose a formulation for modeling macroscopic traffic flow using a modified speed–density relationship. The flow model consists of a nonlinear hyperbolic system of conservation laws. The proposed modification distinguishes between acceleration and deceleration by assuming a different equilibrium velocity for a given traffic density based on whether a platoon of vehicles is accelerating or decelerating. We examine the appropriateness of this modification to two prominent traffic flow models in a Lagrangian reference frame, which we solve computationally. We show that a Lagrangian coordinate system is ideal for the incorporation of the proposed modification due to its ability to track the behavior of moving vehicles. We see that the modification is particularly well suited to “second order” models.     

Generalized macroscopic traffic model with time delay

The effect of delay or reaction time on traffic flow dynamics has been investigated widely in the literature using microscopic traffic models. Recent studies using second-order Payne-type models have shown analytically that, on a macroscopic scale, time delay does not contribute to whether traffic instabilities occur. This paper will attempt to show that it all depends on the (macroscopic) model used for the analysis that delay does have effect on traffic instabilities or not. To this end, we will formulate a generalized (linear) stability condition for a second-order macroscopic model with delay and investigate analytically the effect of such delay on traffic instabilities in some specific macroscopic models. It is found that the choice of the equilibrium speed function in a (second order) macroscopic model will determine how delay affects such (linear) stability condition     

低速混合型城市交通的流体力学模型

本文提出了一种新的交通流数学模型，它比目前常用的交通流模型更具有一般性，尤其适用于我国城市现阶段低速混合交通为主的实际状况。讨论了模型的连续形式和离散形式，定解条件的提法，模型参数的测定方法，以及数值解的稳定范围。几个实际的、难度较大的算例，显示这种模型具有良好的数值模拟功能。     

Analysis of the structural properties of the solutions to speed gradient traffic flow model

In this paper, we carry out an analysis of the structural properties of the solutions to the speed gradient (SG) traffic flow model. Under the condition that the relaxation effect can be neglected, it is shown that a 1-shock or a 1-rarefaction is associated with the first characteristic, but on the other hand, a contact discontinuity rather than a 2-shock or a 2-rarefaction is associated with the second characteristic. Since the existence of a 2-shock or 2-rarefaction violates the physical mechanism of the traffic flow, the SG model is more reasonable. If the relaxation effect cannot be neglected, it is somewhat difficult to carry out the analytical analysis and the numerical simulation results should be obtained. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10272101)