Controlling Disorder in Traffic Flow by Perturbation

We propose a new technique for controlling disorder in traffic system. A kind of control signal which can be considered as a perturbation has been designated at a given site (perturbation point) of the single-lane highway. When a vehicle passes the perturbation point at a time, the velocity of the v...

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Published inCommunications in theoretical physics Vol. 42; no. 11; pp. 711 - 714
Main Author LI Ke-Ping GAO Zi-You CHEN Tian-Lun
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China%Department of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China 2004
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and
disorder
NaSch
order
time-headway
traffic
order and disorder
time-headway
NaSch traffic model
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Summary:We propose a new technique for controlling disorder in traffic system. A kind of control signal which can be considered as a perturbation has been designated at a given site (perturbation point) of the single-lane highway. When a vehicle passes the perturbation point at a time, the velocity of the vehicle will be changed at the next time by the perturbation. This technique is tested for the deterministic NaSch traffic model. The simulation results indicate that the traffic system can be transited from the disorder states to the order states, such as fixed-point, periodic motion, etc.
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ISSN:0253-6102