An empirical test for cellular automaton models of traffic flow
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
Based on a detailed microscopic test scenario motivated by recent empirical studies of single-vehicle data, several cellular automaton models for traffic flow are compared. We find three levels of agreement with the empirical data: 1) models that do not reproduce even qualitatively the most important empirical observations, 2) models that are on a macroscopic level in reasonable agreement with the empirics, and 3) models that reproduce the empirical data on a microscopic level as well. Our results are not only relevant for applications, but also shed new light on the relevant interactions in traffic flow.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0404710,
title = {An empirical test for cellular automaton models of traffic flow},
author = {Wolfgang Knospe and Ludger Santen and Andreas Schadschneider and Michael Schreckenberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0404710},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
28 pages, 36 figures, accepted for publication in PRE