Disorder effects in cellular automata for two-lane traffic
Statistical Mechanics
2015-06-25 v1
Abstract
For single-lane traffic models it is well known that particle disorder leads to platoon formation at low densities. Here we discuss the effect of slow cars in two-lane systems. Surprisingly, even a small number of slow cars can initiate the formation of platoons at low densities. The robustness of this phenomenon is investigated for different variants of the lane-changing rules as well as for different variants on the single-lane dynamics. It is shown that anticipation of drivers reduces the influence of slow cars drastically.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9810184,
title = {Disorder effects in cellular automata for two-lane traffic},
author = {Wolfgang Knospe and Ludger Santen and Andreas Schadschneider and Michael Schreckenberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9810184},
year = {2015}
}
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RevTeX, 22 eps-figures included, 10 pages