Research Article

Deliberative Self-Organizing Traffic Lights with Elementary Cellular Automata

Table 1

Parameters used by the self-organizing method [4]. The size of each block is meters.

Variable Abstract valueScaled value Description

1 tick1/3 s Time step in the simulation.
10 cells50 m Distance where the vehicles are detected approaching the intersection.
5 cells25 m Short distance where the vehicles are detected approaching the intersection.
3 cells15 m Distance where stationary vehicles are detected.
10 ticks3.33 s Minimum waiting time behind a red light.
600 ticks200 s Maximum waiting time behind a red light.
40 veh⋅ticks13.33 veh⋅s Accumulated number of vehicles at distance .
2 vehicles2 vehicles Number of vehicles at distance .