A viscous continuum traffic flow model with consideration of the coupling effect for two-lane freeways |
| |
Authors: | Sun Di-Hua and Peng Guang-Han |
| |
Institution: | College of Automation, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China |
| |
Abstract: | In this paper, the viscous continuum traffic flow model for a single
lane is extended to the traffic flow for two-lane freeways. The
proposed model is a higher-order continuum model considering the
coupling and lane changing effects of the vehicles on two adjacent
lanes. It results from integrating the Taylor series expansion of
the viscous continuum traffic flow model proposed by Ge (2006 Physica
A 371 667) into the multi-lane model presented by
Daganzo (1997 Transpn. Res. B 31 83). Our proposed
model may be used to describe non-anisotropic behaviour because of
lane changing in multi-lane traffic. A linear stability analysis
is given and the neutral stability condition is obtained. Also,
issues related to lane changing, shock waves and rarefaction waves,
local clustering and phase transition are investigated through a
simulation experiment. The simulation results show that the proposed
model is capable of explaining some particular traffic phenomena
commonly observable in real world traffic flow. |
| |
Keywords: | two-lane traffic viscous
continuum traffic flow model numerical simulation |
本文献已被 维普 等数据库收录! |
| 点击此处可从《中国物理 B》浏览原始摘要信息 |
| 点击此处可从《中国物理 B》下载免费的PDF全文 |
|