%0 Journal Article %J PLOS ONE %D 2016 %T Traffic Games: Modeling Freeway Traffic with Game Theory %A Cortés-Berrueco, Luis E. %A Gershenson, Carlos %A Stephens, Christopher R. %X 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. %B PLOS ONE %I Public Library of Science %V 11 %P 1-34 %8 11 %G eng %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0165381 %R 10.1371/journal.pone.0165381