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A cellular automata model for highway traffic

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We present results relative to a simple cellular automata model without periodic boundary conditions for an highway with on-ramps. Simulations performed with this model reproduce experimental phenomena observed in traffic such as free flow, synchronized flow, congested flow, lane inversion, forward and backward propagating waves. On-ramps play the important role of nucleation points for the dynamic features of traffic.

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  1. Physics Department of Bologna University and Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, viale Berti-Pichat 6/2, 40127, Bologna, Italy

    E.G. Campari

  2. Physics Department of Bologna University and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, viale Berti-Pichat 6/2, 40127, Bologna, Italy

    G. Levi

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Received 4 February 2000 and Received in final form 5 May 2000

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Campari, E., Levi, G. A cellular automata model for highway traffic. Eur. Phys. J. B 17, 159–166 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510070172

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