title: Traffic Games: Modeling Freeway Traffic with Game Theory.
abstract: We apply game theory to a vehicular traffic model to study the effect of driver strategies on traffic flow. The resulting model inherits the realistic dynamics achieved by a two-lane traffic model and aims to incorporate phenomena caused by driver-driver interactions. To achieve this goal, a game-theoretic description of driver interaction was developed. This game-theoretic formalization allows one to model different lane-changing behaviors and to keep track of mobility performance. We simulate the evolution of cooperation, traffic flow, and mobility performance for different modeled behaviors. The analysis of these results indicates a mobility optimization process achieved by drivers' interactions.
authors.affiliation: Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, México.
authors.forename: Luis E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Cortés-Berrueco
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, Mexico.|SENSEable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.|MoBS Lab, Northeastern University, Evanstone, Illinois, United States of America.|ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.|Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, México.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gershenson
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, México.|Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, México.
authors.forename: Christopher R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Stephens
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D005716:Game Theory; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical