Citation

Tanaka K, Nagatani T, Hanaura H. Physica A Stat. Mech. Appl. 2007; 376(1): 617-627.

Affiliation

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Division of Thermal Science, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu 432-8561, Japan (tmtnaga@ipc.shizuoka.ac.jp)

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.physa.2006.10.023

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

We study the traffic congestion and dispersion of vehicles occurring on a single lane highway in Hurricane evacuation. The traffic congestion depends on both sensitivity and speed of the leading vehicle. When the leading vehicle moves with low speed, the vehicular traffic exhibits the stop and go-wave (oscillating congested traffic) for low sensitivity, while the traffic results in the homogeneous congested traffic for high sensitivity. The traffic dispersion is measured by the time difference between the leading and rear vehicles. The time difference fluctuates highly for the oscillating congestion traffic, while it keeps a constant value for the homogeneous congested traffic. The traffic states in Hurricane evacuation is connected to the phase diagram of conventional traffic.