Jamming transition in a cellular automaton model for traffic flow
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-30 v1 adap-org
comp-gas
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases
Abstract
The cellular automaton model for traffic flow exhibits a jamming transition from a free-flow phase to a congested phase. In the deterministic case this transition corresponds to a critical point with diverging correlation length. In the presence of noise, however, no consistent picture has emerged up to now. We present data from numerical simulations which suggest the absence of critical behavior. The transition of the deterministic case is smeared out and one only observes the remnants of the critical point.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9706041,
title = {Jamming transition in a cellular automaton model for traffic flow},
author = {B. Eisenblaetter and L. Santen and A. Schadschneider and M. Schreckenberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9706041},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
20 pages, 12 figures, REVTEX