Traffic flow of a roundabout crossing with an open boundary condition

This paper presents a cellular automaton traffic flow model with an open boundary condition to describe the traffic flow at a roundabout crossing with an inner roundabout lane and an outer roundabout lane. The simulation results show that the boundary condition, bottlenecks and the self-organization affect the traffic flow at the roundabout crossing. Because of the effect of bottlenecks, jams easily appear on the inner roundabout lane. To improve the capacity of the roundabout system, proper values of the enter probability α and the out probability $\beta $ can be chosen.     

A study of a main—road cellular automata traffic flow model

A main-road cellular automata traffic flow model on two dimensions is presented based on the Biham－Middleton－Levine traffic model. Its evolution equations are given and the self-organization and organization cooperation phenomena in this model are also studied by using computer simulation.     

Lattice-gas simulation of escaping pedestrian flow in corridor

A lattice-gas model of biased-random walkers is used to simulate the escaping pedestrian flow under the open boundary condition in corridor. Given that the total number of people is unchanging, we have studied the evolution of pedestrian flow by varying parameters of system size. Relationships between parameters of system size and the transition time are discussed in this paper. Scaling behaviour is found as follows: the transition time t_c scales as t_c∝W^{-0.85±0.04}, and t_c∝D, where W is the width of corridor, and D is the strength of drift. However, the other parameters are found to have little influence on the transition time.