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CA Models for Traffic Flow: Comparison with Empirical Single-Vehicle Data

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Although traffic simulations with cellular-automata models give meaningful results compared with empirical data, highway traffic requires a more detailed description of the elementary dynamics. Based on recent empirical results we present a modified Nagel-Schreckenberg cellular automaton model which incorporates both a slow-to-start and an anticipation rule, which takes into account especially brake lights. The focus in this article lies on the comparison with empirical single-vehicle data.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0001276,
  title  = {CA Models for Traffic Flow: Comparison with Empirical Single-Vehicle Data},
  author = {W. Knospe and L. Santen and A. Schadschneider and M. Schreckenberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0001276},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures, uses Springer Macros 'lncse', to appear in "Traffic and Granular Flow '99: Social, Traffic, and Granular Dynamics" edited by D. Helbing, H. J. Herrmann, M. Schreckenberg, and D. E. Wolf (Springer, Berlin)

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