1. A cellular automata approach for modelling pedestrian-vehicle mixed traffic flow in urban city.
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Wang, Jinghui, Lv, Wei, Jiang, Yajuan, and Huang, Guangchen
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TRAFFIC flow , *CELLULAR automata , *CITY traffic , *PEDESTRIANS , *TRAFFIC conflicts - Abstract
• A pedestrian-vehicle coupling model with high simulation accuracy is proposed. • Six phase regions were acquired from the heterogeneous traffic phase diagram. • Obtained the difference between the fundamental diagram of heterogeneous and homogeneous traffic. • Tighter speed limits and wider sidewalks can reduce traffic conflicts. In urban streets, the intrusion of pedestrians into the motorway will pose a considerable challenge. However, modelling mixed pedestrian-vehicle traffic scenes is difficult. Pedestrians and vehicles have different motion characteristics and spatial dimensions, so it is hard to carry out unified modelling, and there are few related studies. This paper combines the multi-grid cellular automata model to explore these scenes to connect the vehicle and pedestrian models. An Improved Kerner-Klenov-Wolf (IKKW) model and a pedestrian motion model considering Time-To-Collision (TTC) are proposed, in which the spatial motion of a vehicle and a pedestrian is uniformly updated horizontally and longitudinally. The preliminary analysis of the model shows that it has high simulation accuracy. Applying the model to the simulation of real-life situations, research results reveal the impact of pedestrian intrusion behavior on traffic and the changes in vehicles' speed and flow rate caused by pedestrian intrusion behavior. The fundamental diagram of pedestrian-vehicle heterogeneous traffic shows significant differences, reflecting the impact of pedestrian intrusion on the state of traffic flow, and exposes six phase regions of pedestrian-vehicle mixed traffic flow. Moreover, this paper analyzes the conflicts between pedestrians and vehicles under different speed limits and sidewalk widths, showing that lower speeds and wider sidewalks can effectively reduce the frequency of pedestrian-vehicle conflicts. The peak conflicts' frequency when the vehicles' speed limit is 60.48 km/h exceeds three times that when the speed limit is 30.24 km/h. The cellular automata model proposed in this paper provides a good direction and idea for studying mixed traffic flow and has high scalability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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