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This study is devoted to the approbation of a two-dimensional microscopic model of vehicle traffic created by the authors based on the theory of cellular automata (CA) on test problems presented in the literature. The obtained spatiotemporal structures of the traffic flow’s velocity distribution are compared with the experimental data. The choice of the optimal averaging method for a more adequate reflection of the results is theoretically substantiated and verified using a numerical experiment. The presented results confirm that the proposed CA model adequately reproduces the patterns observed in the velocity diagrams of real traffic flows and also provides greater similarity with the experimental data in comparison with the other presented models.
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Chechina, A.A., Churbanova, N.G. & Trapeznikova, M.A. Comparison of Reproduction of Spatiotemporal Structures of Traffic Flows Using Various Ways of Averaging Data. Math Models Comput Simul 13, 756–762 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2070048221050070
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