Construction of extended ant colony labor division model for traffic signal timing and its application in mixed traffic flow model of single intersection

Changbing Jiang, Tinggui Chen, Ruolan Li, Liang Li, Gongfa Li, Chonghuan Xu, Shufang Li

Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience · 2019 · 19 citations · 40 references

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Abstract

Summary The ant colony labor division model can be used to solve the dynamic and variable traffic signal timing problem because of its adaptive and self‐adjusting characteristics. Based on the basic model, this paper proposes a new extended ant colony labor division model for traffic signal timing. This model is combined with the vehicle characteristics to modify the calculation method of environmental stimulus values. Using the vehicle delay in the unit period, the original fixed response threshold is modified to the dynamic response threshold, and the state transition equation is reconstructed. Based on the mixed traffic flow model of two‐phase single‐point intersection cellular automata, through comparative experiments and discussion and analysis, it is found that the extended ant colony labor division model can effectively improve road traffic capacity according to road conditions and reasonable traffic signal timing.

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