TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Effects of a type of quenched randomness on car accidents in a cellular automaton model
JO  - Physical review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
A1  - Zhao, Yi-min
A1  - Yang, Xian-qing
A1  - Zhang, Weigang
A1  - Qiu, Kang
SP  - 016126
EP  - 016126
VL  - 73
IS  - 1 Pt 2
N2  - In this paper we numerically study the probability of the occurrence of car accidents in the Nagel-Schreckenberg (NS) model with a defect. In the deterministic NS model, numerical results show that there exists a critical value of car density below which no car accident happens. The critical density is not related only to the maximum speed of cars, but also to the braking probability at the defect. The braking probability at a defect can enhance, not suppress, the occurrence of car accidents when its value is small. Only the braking probability at the defect is very large, car accidents can be reduced by the bottleneck. In the nondeterministic NS model, the probability exhibits the same behaviors with that in the deterministic model except the case of under which the probability is only reduced by the defect. The defect also induces the inhomogeneous distribution of car accidents over the whole road. Theoretical analyses give an agreement with numerical results in the deterministic NS model and in the nondeterministic NS model with in the case of large defect braking probability.
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SN  - 1539-3755
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -