The trade-off between safety and flow of traffic

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10.2991/etmhs-15.2015.186How to use a DOI?

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The tradeoff between safety and flow of traffic

Abstract

In this paper, I study how speed-limit affects the safety and flow. To study is respectively, first, I study the relationship between accidents rate and speed-limit. In this section, accidents happened due to overtaking and tailgating and the equations are based on the fundamental law of motion. Then, to study the effect of flow, I set up a model based on cellular automation. In my model, vehicles drive following series of simple rules, and the flow changes due to different speed-limit. I can draw a further conclusion by summarizing the results of my model. Finally, I can get the effect speed-limit has on flow and safety. To tradeoff the flow and safety, I allocate coefficients to each of them. The size of the coefficient represents how much I value this factor---flow or safety. Then I can understand the different results (flow and safety) based on different speed-limit.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jingsong Meng
PY  - 2015/03
DA  - 2015/03
TI  - The trade-off between safety and flow of traffic
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Education Technology, Management and Humanities Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 847
EP  - 852
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/etmhs-15.2015.186
DO  - 10.2991/etmhs-15.2015.186
ID  - Meng2015/03
ER  -