2010 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Cellular Automata for a Cyclic Bus
Authors : Ding-wei Huang, Wei-neng Huang
Published in: Cellular Automata
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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We propose a simple cellular automaton model to study the dynamics of a cyclic bus. The nontrivial fluctuations are prescribed by the stochastic moving of bus interacting with the stochastic arrival of passengers. As passengers increase, the bus schedule shows a clear transition. Both numerical and analytical results are presented. The divergence of bus schedule can be taken as an analogy to the gridlock of 4-way traffic. We also comment on the strategy to keep a stable schedule.