Citation

Cortés-Berrueco LE, Gershenson C, Stephens CR. PLoS One 2016; 11(11): e0165381.

Affiliation

Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, México.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Public Library of Science)

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0165381

PMID

27855176

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.

Language: en