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The Traffic Bottleneck Effects Caused By The Lane Closing In The Cellular Automata Model

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  • BIN JIA

    (School of Engineering Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China)

  • RUI JIANG

    (School of Engineering Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China)

  • QING-SONG WU

    (School of Engineering Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China)

Abstract

As a kind of bottleneck, the lane closing has seldomly been investigated with cellular automata model. In this paper, we study this issue using the cellular automata traffic flow model. The capacity and the density distribution of this kind of bottleneck are discussed in details. We find that (i) the capacity of the bottleneck is a little smaller than the maximum flow rate of single-lane road; (ii) different regulations may lead to different density distributions of the vehicles upstream of the lane closing. Moreover, the density inversion phenomenon is reported under certain conditions. This enlightens us to propose that the phenomenon of density inversion reported in many publications may be caused by the bottlenecks on the highway.

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  • Bin Jia & Rui Jiang & Qing-Song Wu, 2003. "The Traffic Bottleneck Effects Caused By The Lane Closing In The Cellular Automata Model," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 14(10), pages 1295-1303.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:14:y:2003:i:10:n:s012918310300542x
    DOI: 10.1142/S012918310300542X
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    1. Ramadan, Ahmed & Roorda, Matthew, 2016. "Impacts of Illegal On-Street Parking on Toronto's CBD Congestion," 57th Transportation Research Forum (51st CTRF) Joint Conference, Toronto, Ontario, May 1-4, 2016 319289, Transportation Research Forum.
    2. Zhang, Lele & de Gier, Jan & Garoni, Timothy M., 2014. "Traffic disruption and recovery in road networks," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 401(C), pages 82-102.
    3. Hou, Guangyang & Chen, Suren & Bao, Yulong, 2022. "Development of travel time functions for disrupted urban arterials with microscopic traffic simulation," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 593(C).

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