Cellular automata models for transportation applications

Kai Nagel

Institute for Scientific Computing, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETHZ), 8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Abstract:

This paper gives an overview of the use of CA modes for transportation applications. In transportation applications, the CA dynamics is embedded within several other concepts, such as the fact that the dynamics unfolds on a graph instead of on flat 2d space, or multi-agent modeling. The paper also discusses the the limits of the CA technology in traffic.