In this paper, we study a two-lane traffic system consisting of a mixture of cars and taxies. The taxies occasionally stop to pick up or drop off passengers. The empty taxi rate, getting on rate (defined as average number of passengers that get on taxi in unit time), fundamental diagram, passenger carry capability, and lane-changing frequency are investigated under different sets of parameters. Some insights are obtained and explained. For example, (i) the flow rate still decreases even if the taxies stop less frequently; (ii) getting on rate does not monotonically increase with the pick-up rate. The diagram of the maximum value of getting on rate is also presented, so that an optimum taxi number could be suggested. We expect our works could be useful for taxi administration and traffic management.


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    Title :

    Traffic Behavior in a Two-Lane System Consisting of a Mixture of Taxies and Cars


    Contributors:
    Yuan, Yaoming (author) / Jiang, Rui (author) / Hu, Maobin (author) / Wu, Qingsong (author)

    Conference:

    Sixth International Conference of Traffic and Transportation Studies Congress (ICTTS) ; 2008 ; Nanning, China



    Publication date :

    2008-07-17




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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