A stochastic cellular automaton model for traffic flow with multiple metastable states
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A new stochastic cellular automaton (CA) model of traffic flow, which includes slow-to-start effects and a driver’s perspective, is proposed by extending the Burgers CA and the Nagel-Schreckenberg CA model. The flowdensity relation of this model shows multiple metastable branches near the transition density from free to congested traffic, which form a wide scattering area in the fundamental diagram. The stability of these branches and their velocity distributions are explicitly studied by numerical simulations.
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