Traffic Games: Modeling Freeway Traffic with Game Theory
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.
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