Title | Traffic Games: Modeling Freeway Traffic with Game Theory |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2016 |
Authors | Cortés-Berrueco, LE, Gershenson, C, Stephens, CR |
Journal | PLOS ONE |
Volume | 11 |
Pagination | 1-34 |
Date Published | 11 |
Abstract | 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. |
URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0165381 |
DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0165381 |