美国数学建模辅导课.ppt

Summary 2 Our goal was to design a model that could account for the dynamics of vehicles in a traf?c circle. We mainly focused on the rate of entry into the circle to determine the best way to regulate traf?c. We assumed that vehicles circulate in a single lane and that only incoming traf?c can be regulated. For our model, the adjustable parameters were the rate of entry into the queue, the rate of entry into the circle (service rate), the maximum capacity of the traf?c circle, and the rate of departure from the circle (departure rate). Vehicles first enter the queue from the outside world, then enter the traffic circle from the queue, and lastly exit the traffic circle to the outside world. We modeled both the service rate and the departure rate as dependent on the number of vehicles inside the traffic circle. In addition, we ran computer simulations to have a visual representation of what happens in traffic circles during different situations. In many cases, we found that a fast service rate was the optimal way to maintain traffic flow. However, when the circle became more Heavily traf?cked, a slower service rate better accommodated the traf?c, indicating that a traf?c light should be used. with variable timing depending on the expected amount of traf?c. The main advantage of our approach was that the model was very simple and allowed us to clearly see the dynamics of the system. Also, the computer simulations that we ran provided more in-depth information about traffic flow under conditions that the model could not easily show visual observation of the traffic. Some disadvantages to our approach were that we could not analyze the affects of multiple lanes nor stop lights that controlled the flow of traffic inside the circle. In addition, we had no way of analyzing singularities in the situation, such as vehicles that drive faster or slower than the rest of the traffic ci