Two Dimensional Cellular Automaton Model of the Mixed Traffic Flow for Urban Traffic

Based on the two-dimension cellular automaton traffic flow model (BML model), a mixed traffic flow model for urban traffic considering the transit traffic is established in this paper. Under the don't block the box rules and the opening boundary conditions, the impacts of transit traffic, the central station, traffic lights cycle, the vehicles length on the mixed traffic flow is studied by computer simulation. Some important characters appearing in the new model are also elucidated. It shows that traffic flow is closely related to traffic lights cycle, the geometric structure of transport network and boundary conditions. Under certain traffic light cycle time, the traffic flow has a periodical oscillation change. The comparison to practical measured data shows that our stimulation results are accordant with the changes of real traffic flow, which confirms the accuracy and rationality of our model.