CA modeling of ant-traffic on trails

Abstract

There has been significant progress in modelling complex systems by using cellular automata (CA) [1, 2]; such complex systems include, for example vehicular traffic [3] and biological systems [4,5]. In most cases, particle-hopping CA models have been used to study the spatio-temporal organization in systems of interacting particles driven far from equilibrium [2,3]. In traffic systems, vehicles are represented by particles while their mutual influence is captured by the inter-particle interactions. Generically, these inter-particle interactions tend to hinder their motions which leads a monotonic decrease of the average speed as function of the particle density [6,7]. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.