COMPETITION AND COOPERATION ON A TOY AUTOBAHN MODEL

Traffic on an one-lane freeway is simulated using a continuous space-d iscrete time probabilistic cellular automata model. The effect of diff erent individual driving patterns is estimated by monitoring the traff ic flow, the velocity and acceleration distributions, the average numb er of accidents, and the distribution of density-waves (traffic jams) as a function of traffic density. The number of accidents, traffic jam s, and the fuel consumption are drastically reduced by driving strateg ies adapting to local traffic conditions. At high traffic densities th is leads, however, to a decrease in the global traffic throughout.