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Traffic behavior analysis of the urban expressway ramp based on continuous cellular automata

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  • Tian, Tian
  • Liu, Gang
  • Hu, Xiaoxi
  • Bian, Dingding

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Urban expressway is an essential part of the urban transportation network, and its role is to speed up traffic operation and relieve traffic congestion. To investigate the complex traffic flow phenomena at urban expressway ramps, we use the Continuous Cellular Automata (CCA) model to model and analyze the urban expressway with entrance and exit ramps in a unified manner. Considering the vehicle's merging, diverging and following behaviors on urban expressway with an entrance and exit ramp, we design the vehicle's main road merging rules, ramp inflow and outflow rules, Cooperative Car-Following for Lane Change process analysis (LC-CCF) model, and improved Nagatani lane change rules to control the overall road vehicle operation. Based on this, we propose a CCA model for urban expressway ramp traffic flow. To clarify the model, The Chengdu Second Ring Elevated Road with entrance and exit ramps as a scenario is used for experiments. The results show that: (1) The spatio-temporal diagrams show a significant metastable congestion phenomenon and distinct congestion boundaries primarily located near the merge and divergence area. Congestion tends to start at the merge and divergence area and then spread outward. (2) The ramp disturbance has an increasingly pronounced effect on average speed and density as Pin−main and Pin−ramp increases. (3) The density-lane change frequency relationship tends to increase and then decrease, with an increase in the frequency of lane changes increasing the interference between vehicles in different lanes and affecting the average traffic speed. The lane change frequency is the main reason for the differences in traffic flow between lanes. (4) The CCA model can effectively characterize congested traffic flows on urban expressway ramps.

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  • Tian, Tian & Liu, Gang & Hu, Xiaoxi & Bian, Dingding, 2024. "Traffic behavior analysis of the urban expressway ramp based on continuous cellular automata," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 633(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:633:y:2024:i:c:s0378437123009731
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2023.129418
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