Dresden 2006 – scientific programme
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AKSOE: Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme
AKSOE 10: Poster Session (posters are expected to be displayed the full day 8:30-18:00)
AKSOE 10.37: Poster
Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 16:00–18:00, P2
Propagation of Traffic-Related Information on Freeways via Inter-Vehicle Communication — •Martin Schönhof1, Martin Treiber1, Arne Kesting1, and Dirk Helbing1,2 — 1Institute for Transport & Economics, Technische Universität Dresden, Andreas-Schubert-Str. 23, D-01062 Dresden, Germany — 2Collegium Budapest — Institute for Advanced Study, Szentháromság u. 2, H-1014 Budapest, Hungary
A freeway with vehicles transmitting traffic-related messages via short-range radio is a technological representation for a complex network: A dynamical process runs on a network with dynamical topology. Here the network dynamics can strongly influence the message propagation because it is of the same timescale. In addition, if the cars generate the messages concerning irregularities in the traffic flow and also react to such information generated by other cars, the system has a feedback loop from the network topology to the generation of messages and from the message propagation to the network topology. The complexity of this system is restricted by its one dimensionality, i.e., the network nodes are distributed in one dimension, but moving in different directions. By microscopic simulation of congested freeway traffic, where a certain fraction of cars are equipped with inter-vehicle-communication facilities, we investigate how the equipment level influences the efficiency of transmitting traffic related information such as the position of jam fronts.