Criterion for traffic phases in single vehicle data and empirical test of a microscopic three-phase traffic theory

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/9/002zbMATH Open1181.90064arXivphysics/0507094OpenAlexW3100060269WikidataQ56985315 ScholiaQ56985315MaRDI QIDQ3376756FDOQ3376756

Authors: Boris S. Kerner, Sergey L. Klenov, Andreas Hiller 

Publication date: 24 March 2006

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A microscopic criterion for distinguishing synchronized flow and wide moving jam phases in single vehicle data measured at a single freeway location is presented. Empirical local congested traffic states in single vehicle data measured on different days are classified into synchronized flow states and states consisting of synchronized flow and wide moving jam(s). Then empirical microscopic characteristics for these different local congested traffic states are studied. Using these characteristics and empirical spatiotemporal macroscopic traffic phenomena, an empirical test of a microscopic three-phase traffic flow theory is performed. Simulations show that the microscopic criterion and macroscopic spatiotemporal objective criteria lead to the same identification of the synchronized flow and wide moving jam phases in congested traffic. It is found that microscopic three-phase traffic models can explain both microscopic and macroscopic empirical congested pattern features. It is obtained that microscopic distributions for vehicle speed difference as well as fundamental diagrams and speed correlation functions can depend on the spatial co-ordinate considerably. It turns out that microscopic optimal velocity (OV) functions and time headway distributions are not necessarily qualitatively different, even if local congested traffic states are qualitatively different. The reason for this is that important spatiotemporal features of congested traffic patterns are it lost in these as well as in many other macroscopic and microscopic traffic characteristics, which are widely used as the empirical basis for a test of traffic flow models, specifically, cellular automata traffic flow models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0507094

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Traffic problems in operations research (90B20)

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