Dynamic Modeling of traffic networks and analyzing drivers' behavior using game theories
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dynamic modeling, traffic networks, driver behavior analysis, game theoryAbstract
Traffic can be considered one of the most exhausting parts of urban life today, which is the result of the accumulation of vehicles per unit of time in a particular intersection. Most of the urban highways have three passing lanes in the same direction, which include slow (lane 3) - medium (lane 2) and fast (lane 1) along with the emergency lane or park lane at the extreme right side of the road. In this research, 20 experts in the field of traffic were interviewed verbally about the variables affecting the volume of traffic and the relationships between them, and modeling was done with a causal diagram in VENSIM software. Then, 20 drivers were verbally surveyed about the fastest lane except the emergency lane during peak traffic conditions on the inner city highways, and all of them (one hundred percent of the sample population) considered the fast lane to be the fastest lane. By using the normal form of the theory of games - limited two-player games and a criterion - the equilibrium point of the game was obtained. The balance point in this game was the selection of the slow lane (lane 3) by each player who recorded the highest speed in it. The equilibrium point in the game showed that, contrary to the opinion of the surveyed drivers, the slow lane has the highest speed in traffic conditions.
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