Cellular automata simulation of traffic flow through a road with a construction zone

In this paper, we discuss the cellular automata simulation of the traffic flow on a two-lane road with a construction zone.The simulation model is based on the cellular automata and the stochastic velocity model.In the stochastic velocity model, the vehicles are controlled with a uniform random number.A two-lane road with a construction zone is considered as the object domains and the simulation results are compared with the results of the one-lane and two-lane roads without a construction zone.Although it has been predicted from the analytical study that the traffic flow on a road with a construction zone depends only on the number of the available lanes, the simulation results shows that the traffic flow depends not only on the number of the available lanes but also the length of the construction zone.