Dissolving traffic jams via adaptive lane changing

Abstract

Vehicular congestion is often a problem in the Philippine’s capital, Metro Manila. Freeway models, which are often successful in explaining highway traffic, need to be modified to simulate driving behavior. In this work, traffic flow was measured as car-to-motorcycle ratios, road densities, and lane-changing maneuvers were varied. We tracked traffic flow for different car-to-motorcycle ratios and road density values. We found that jamming can be mitigated at certain road densities if vehicles are allowed to disregard designated lanes.