Modeling and simulation of traffic flow under different combination setting of taxi stop and bus stop

Abstract

Taxis and buses have significant influence on traffic flow due to their special moving and stopping behavior. Based on the analysis of their operation and stopping characteristics, a two-lane cellular automaton model for urban roads considering the influence of stopping behavior is established, the vehicle type, cell length and moving speed are re-described. Considering the linear taxi stop and the linear bus stop, the characteristics of traffic flow under two different combination settings are studied. The numerical simulation results show that the combined bottleneck effect has little impact on flow rate and average speed when the bus stop is set on the upstream of the taxi stop, and the distance between stops should be 50 m. These findings lay a solid foundation for better description of urban traffic flow and enable better scientific planning and control of urban traffic.