Cellular Automaton Modeling of SDP System and its Applications in 1D Traffic Flow

Abstract

Cellular Automaton (CA) is a new and suitable approach to model various kinds of SDP systems, such as vehicular traffic, pedestrian dynamics, and logistics. Especially, the advantages of CA modeling approach are follows; (1) CA models can explicitly consider the exclusion principle, which is an essential factor of SDP system. (2) Some of CA models, e.g. TASEP, can be solved analytically. In this paper, we present some results about two traffic situations, i.e., the dynamics through a rail crossing and the dynamics in a queue of vehicles, using a CA model for 1D traffic flow.