https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2004-00334-3
The influence of aggressive drivers on the properties of a stochastic traffic model
LMSP, Dépt. de Physique, FST,
B.P. 509, Boutalamine, Errachidia, Morocco
Corresponding author: a najemmoussa@yahoo.fr
Received:
19
December
2003
Revised:
15
April
2004
Published online:
21
October
2004
In this paper, we study numerically the influence of aggressive
driving on the properties of the stochastic Nagel-Schreckenberg
model, such as the traffic flow and the probability of car
accidents. Hence, we find that these properties depend enormously
on both the density 
and the fraction f of aggressive
drivers. In addition, by studying the spatio-temporal organization
of the vehicles, we show that at very low density, the traffic
state transits from “ordinary” free traffic to “queueing”
phase when we increase the fraction f. At relatively high
density, the transition from congested traffic to queueing phase
may also occur.
PACS: 89.40.-a – Transportation / 02.60.Cb – Numerical simulation; solution of equations / 45.70.Vn – Granular models of complex systems; traffic flow / 89.75.Fb – Structures and organization in complex systems
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2004
