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Transportation in Developing Economies
Published in: Transportation in Developing Economies 2/2016

01-10-2016 | Original Article

Modeling Seepage Behavior of Smaller Vehicles in Mixed Traffic Conditions Using an Agent Based Simulation

Authors: Amit Agarwal, Gregor Lämmel

Published in: Transportation in Developing Economies | Issue 2/2016

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Abstract

Seepage is an important yet rarely modeled or quantified phenomenon in mixed traffic streams. It describes situations where smaller vehicles do not line up but rather “seep” through a queue of stationary or almost stationary vehicles. This contribution introduces seepage into an agent-based transport simulation model. In order to allow vehicles to seep, the traditional first-in-first-out queue model is modified such that in the free flow regime, faster vehicles can overtake slower vehicles and in the congested regime, slower vehicles can overtake faster vehicles. The model is validated with the help of fundamental diagrams. Its sensitivity is investigated by comparing the impact of different shares of smaller vehicles on the speed-density relation in the mixed traffic streams. A case study of the evacuation of Patna, India under mixed traffic conditions with seepage demonstrates the overall approach.
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Footnotes
1
See, e.g. [14] for a detailed overview of problems that arise when planing the evacuation of whole cities.
 
2
The idea behind this experimental set up is to run fixed number of agents on the track until certain termination criteria is reached. A triangular race track is the simplest network to achieve and demonstrate this functionality, however, any other network may also be chosen.
 
3
In order to show the congested regime of flow-density curve of bike, this number is assumed to 4 (equivalent to \(1~\textit{PCU}\)), however, the true value need to be calibrated from the scenario specific survey data.
 
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Metadata
Title
Modeling Seepage Behavior of Smaller Vehicles in Mixed Traffic Conditions Using an Agent Based Simulation
Authors
Amit Agarwal
Gregor Lämmel
Publication date
01-10-2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
Transportation in Developing Economies / Issue 2/2016
Print ISSN: 2199-9287
Electronic ISSN: 2199-9295
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40890-016-0014-9

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