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Inversion of Flux between Zipper and Non-Zipper Merging in Highway Traffic

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Cellular Automata (ACRI 2010)

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For easing heavy traffic jams on weaving and merging sections on highway traffic, we compare the efficiency of zipper merging and non-zipper merging. Zipper merging is the merging of vehicles on two lanes by turns and achieved by only vehicle-to-vehicle interactions before merging. Non-zipper merging is the merging without any interactions before merging. In this comparison we use a cellular automaton model on multiple lanes with slow-to-start rules. Simulations and mean-field analysis show that the flux of zipper merging is larger (smaller) than that of random merging in the case of large (small) slow-to-start effect.

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  1. School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan

    Ryosuke Nishi & Daichi Yanagisawa

  2. Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan

    Ryosuke Nishi & Daichi Yanagisawa

  3. Department of Material Sciences, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of, Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan

    Hiroshi Miki

  4. Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences, Meiji University, Japan

    Akiyasu Tomoeda

  5. Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan

    Katsuhiro Nishinari

  6. PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan

    Katsuhiro Nishinari

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Nishi, R., Miki, H., Tomoeda, A., Yanagisawa, D., Nishinari, K. (2010). Inversion of Flux between Zipper and Non-Zipper Merging in Highway Traffic . In: Bandini, S., Manzoni, S., Umeo, H., Vizzari, G. (eds) Cellular Automata. ACRI 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6350. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15979-4_68

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