Simon Gutowitz bidirectional traffic model revisited
Abstract
The Simon-Gutowitz bidirectional traffic model [P.M. Simon, H.A. Gutowitz, Phys. Rev. E 57 (1998) 2441] is revisited in this Letter. We found that passing cars get stuck with oncoming cars before returning to their home lanes. This provokes the occurrence of wide jams on both lanes. We have rectified the rules for lane changing. Then, the wide jams disappear and the revisited model can describe well the realistic bidirectional traffic.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters A
- Pub Date:
- November 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.physleta.2008.08.081
- Bibcode:
- 2008PhLA..372.6701M
- Keywords:
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- 02.50.Ey;
- 05.45.-a;
- 45.70.Vn;
- 89.40.+k;
- Stochastic processes;
- Nonlinear dynamics and chaos;
- Granular models of complex systems;
- traffic flow