Stability of multi-population traffic flows

DOI10.3934/NHM.2023038arXiv2201.00381OpenAlexW4324282197MaRDI QIDQ6196458FDOQ6196458

Authors: Amaury Hayat, B. Piccoli, Shengquan Xiang 

Publication date: 14 March 2024

Published in: Networks and Heterogeneous Media (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Traffic waves, known also as stop-and-go waves or phantom hams, appear naturally as traffic instabilities, also in confined environments as a ring-road. A multi-population traffic is studied on a ring-road, comprised of drivers with stable and unstable behavior. There exists a critical penetration rate of stable vehicles above which the system is stable, and under which the system is unstable. In the latter case, stop-and-go waves appear, provided enough cars are on the road. The critical penetration rate is explicitly computable, and, in reasonable situations, a small minority of aggressive drivers is enough to destabilize an otherwise very stable flow. This is a source of instability that a single population model would not be able to explain. Also, the multi-population system can be stable below the critical penetration rate if the number of cars is sufficiently small. Instability emerges as the number of cars increases, even if the traffic density remains the same (i.e. number of cars and road size increase similarly). This shows that small experiments could lead to deducing imprecise stability conditions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00381

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zbMATH Keywords

stabilitycontroltraffic flowmulti-populationstop-and-go

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Traffic problems in operations research (90B20)

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