Traffic flow behavior at un-signalized intersection with crossings pedestrians

Mixed traffic flux composed of crossing pedestrians and vehicles extensively exists in cities. To study the characteristics of the interference traffic flux, we develop a pedestrian-vehicle cellular automata model to present the interaction behaviors on a simple cross road. By realizing the fundamental parameters (i.e. injecting rates alpha(1), alpha(2), the extracting rate beta and the pedestrian arrival rate alpha(p)), simulations are carried out. The vehicular traffic flux is calculated in terms of rates. The effect of the crosswalk can be regarded as a dynamic impurity. The system phase diagrams in the (alpha(1), alpha(p)) plane are built. It is found that the phase diagrams consist essentially of four phases namely Free Flow, Congested, Maximal Current and Gridlock. The value of the Maximal current phase depends on the extracting rate beta, while the Gridlock phase is achieved only when the pedestrians generating rate is higher than a critical value. Furthermore, the effect of vehicles changing lane (P-ch1,P-ch2) and the location of the crosswalk X-p on the dynamic characteristics of vehicles flow are investigated. It is found that traffic situation in the system is slightly enhanced if the location of the crosswalks X-p is far from the intersection. However, when P-ch1, P-ch2 increase, the traffic becomes congested and the Gridlock phase enlarges. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.