TY - JOUR T1 - Traffic Games: Modeling Freeway Traffic with Game Theory JF - PLOS ONE Y1 - 2016 A1 - Cortés-Berrueco, Luis E. A1 - Gershenson, Carlos A1 - Stephens, Christopher R. AB - We apply game theory to a vehicular traffic model to study the effect of driver strategies on traffic flow. The resulting model inherits the realistic dynamics achieved by a two-lane traffic model and aims to incorporate phenomena caused by driver-driver interactions. To achieve this goal, a game-theoretic description of driver interaction was developed. This game-theoretic formalization allows one to model different lane-changing behaviors and to keep track of mobility performance. We simulate the evolution of cooperation, traffic flow, and mobility performance for different modeled behaviors. The analysis of these results indicates a mobility optimization process achieved by drivers' interactions. PB - Public Library of Science VL - 11 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0165381 ER -