Research and Improvement of the Keep-Right-Except-to-Pass Rule

Abstract:

In order to deal with the impact on traffic flow of the rule, we compare the influence factors of traffic flow (passing, etc.) into viscous resistance of fluid mechanics, and establish a traffic model based on fluid mechanics. First, in heavy and light traffic, we respectively use this model to simulate the actual segment of the road and find that when the traffic is heavy, the rule hinder the further increase in traffic. For this reason, we make further improvements to the model to obtain a fluid traffic model based on no passing and find that the improved model makes traffic flow increase significantly. Then, the improved model is applied to the light traffic, we find there are no significant changes in traffic flow .In this regard we propose a new rule: when the traffic is light, passing is allowed, but when the traffic is heavy, passing is not allowed.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 915-916)
• Pages: 459-463
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.915-916.459
• Online since: April 2014
• Authors: He Quan Zhang*
• Keywords: Fluid Mechanics, Overtaking, Traffic Flow, Viscous Resistance

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