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Zehua Si1, Md Anowar Hossain1, Jun Tanimoto1,2
1Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Kasuga-koen, Kasuga-shi, Fukuoka, 816-8580, Japan.
Abstract:
This study aims to develop a traffic model for heterogeneous vehicle movement, which introduces the vehicle's heterogeneity by considering the internal mass effect. We explore the behavioral characteristics of the flow field generated by the proposed model and provide a comparative analysis of the conventional model. A linear stability condition is deduced to showcase the model's capacity to neutralize flow. Nonlinear analysis is employed to derive the modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation and its corresponding analytical solution, enabling the observation of traffic flow behavior in proximity to the neutral stability condition. A numerical simulation is then conducted, considering cyclic boundary conditions. The results indicate that the mass effect tends to absorb traffic jams provided no time delay is imposed.
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