Wykorzystanie automatów komórkowych w modelowaniu ruchu drogowego

Uniwersalność automatów komórkowych spowodowała, iż znajdują zastosowanie w wielu dziedzinach, np. w modelowaniu i symulacji ruchu drogowego. Autorzy prezentują dokonania w tym zakresie (tab. 1) oraz formułują nowy model, będący rozwinięciem modelu skrzyżowania dróg prezentowanego w [1] i [8]. Dodatkowo autorzy przedstawiają charakterystykę opracowanego, nowatorskiego systemu, umożliwiającego modelowanie dowolnego obszaru (zespół skrzyżowań i dróg) oraz symulowanie ruchu w ujęciu mikroskopowym.

Cellular automata are considered by some researchers to belong to one of the IT department, which is an artificial intelligence. Even though their history goes back to the forties of the last century, much attention is still paid to the use of cellular automata for the process of testing and simulation of different phenomena. The universality of cellular automata caused their application to many areas such as: physics, computer graphics and traffic modeling. The authors present the achievements in this field (Table 1) and formulate a new traffic model which is a development of the crossroads model defined by Chowdhury-Schadschneider [1] and later by Bartodziej [8]. This new model helps to simulate traffic at the crossroads of two-lane and two-way roads. In addition, there is given the worked out system characteristics which enables modeling any area (intersections and roads) and carrying out the traffic simulations in a microscopic approach. The software consists of two applications: TrafficCA (traffic simulator based on cellular automata) and the map editor (this application enables generating any area including roads, traffic lights and the surroundings). Taking into account the fact that the simulated cases are always correct (carried out in accordance with properly defined models of cellular automata), the developed system, except for the traffic modeling, can be used for showing driver behaviour unfavourable for traffic capacity.