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Modelling Traffic Flow at a Multilane Intersection

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This paper proposes a new model to study traffic flow at a multi-lane urban intersection, through detailed space considerations, using cellular automata (CA) and Minimum Acceptable sPace (MAP) method. Heterogeneity and inconsistency of driver behaviour and interactions at entrances of two-lane intersections are simulated by incorporation of different categories of driver behaviour and reassignment of categories with given probabilities at each time step. The method is able to reproduce many features of urban traffic, for which gap-acceptance models are less appropriate. Vehicles on entry roads are allocated to lanes based on queue-length on each lane. Two two-lane roundabout models are developed with different vehicle lane-allocation patterns. Various properties of two-lane intersection operations have been explored including throughput, turning rates, critical arrival rates and congestion on the intersections. Vehicle movements in this paper relate to left-side driving, such as found in UK and Ireland. However, rules are generally applicable.

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  1. School of Computer Applications, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Ruili Wang & Heather J. Ruskin

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  1. Army High Performance Computing Research Center, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N1N4, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  3. Heuchera Technologies Inc., 122 9251-8 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada, L4C 9T3

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

  4. Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationelle, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Pierre L’Ecuyer

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minessota, MN, 55455, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  6. The Queen’s University of Belfast, School of Computer Science, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

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Wang, R., Ruskin, H.J. (2003). Modelling Traffic Flow at a Multilane Intersection. In: Kumar, V., Gavrilova, M.L., Tan, C.J.K., L’Ecuyer, P. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications — ICCSA 2003. ICCSA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2667. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44839-X_62

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