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 value | Scaled value | Description |
| | 1 tick | 1/3 s | Time step in the simulation. | | 10 cells | 50 m | Distance where the vehicles are detected approaching the intersection. | | 5 cells | 25 m | Short distance where the vehicles are detected approaching the intersection. | | 3 cells | 15 m | Distance where stationary vehicles are detected. | | 10 ticks | 3.33 s | Minimum waiting time behind a red light. | | 600 ticks | 200 s | Maximum waiting time behind a red light. | | 40 veh⋅ticks | 13.33 veh⋅s | Accumulated number of vehicles at distance . | | 2 vehicles | 2 vehicles | Number of vehicles at distance . |
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