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Traffic Behavior In A Two-Lane System Consisting Of A Mixture Of Buses And Cars

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  • YAO-MING YUAN

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

  • RUI JIANG

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

  • QING-SONG WU

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

  • RUILI WANG

    (Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, Massey University, New Zealand)

Abstract

In this paper, a two-lane traffic system consisting of a mixture of buses and cars is studied. The buses stop at each bus stop to pick up passengers and are not allowed to change lane. The cars may change lane when hindered by preceding vehicles. Our simulations show that with a fixed number of buses, four states of the traffic system are identified. The spatial-temporal plots of the four traffic states, and the trajectories of buses at different densities are presented. A gradual transition instead of sharp phase transition from bunching state to homogeneous state of the buses is found. Next, we study the system behavior at different number of bus stops, and an optimal number of stops is suggested. Finally, the influence of bus stops on the fundamental diagram is studied.

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  • Yao-Ming Yuan & Rui Jiang & Qing-Song Wu & Ruili Wang, 2007. "Traffic Behavior In A Two-Lane System Consisting Of A Mixture Of Buses And Cars," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 18(12), pages 1925-1938.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:18:y:2007:i:12:n:s0129183107011819
    DOI: 10.1142/S0129183107011819
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    1. Duy Q. Nguyen-Phuoc & William Young & Graham Currie & Chris Gruyter, 2020. "Traffic congestion relief associated with public transport: state-of-the-art," Public Transport, Springer, vol. 12(2), pages 455-481, June.
    2. Fatemeh Enayatollahi & Ahmed Osman Idris & M. A. Amiri Atashgah, 2019. "Modelling bus bunching under variable transit demand using cellular automata," Public Transport, Springer, vol. 11(2), pages 269-298, August.
    3. Qiang, Shengjie & Huang, Qingxia, 2021. "Interactions between buses and cars in a two-lane mixed traffic system," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 570(C).
    4. Nguyen-Phuoc, Duy Q. & Currie, Graham & De Gruyter, Chris & Kim, Inhi & Young, William, 2018. "Modelling the net traffic congestion impact of bus operations in Melbourne," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 117(C), pages 1-12.
    5. Qiang, Shengjie & Huang, Qingxia, 2023. "Impacts of bus holding strategies on the performance of mixed traffic system," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 611(C).

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