Cellular automata for one-lane traffic flow modeling

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-74

  Larraga M E ^a   del Río, J Antonio ^b   Alvarez lcaza, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Microsimulation; Traffic flow models

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICS; TOPOLOGY; VEHICLES;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA MODEL; STATISTICAL PHYSICS; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC NETWORKS;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

CELLULAR AUTOMATON;

EID: 13244272002     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2004.12.001     Document Type: Article

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