Abstract:
With the increase of population and vehicles, the development of roads is difficult to meet the needs of vehicle traffic, traffic congestion and other issues become serious. Due to the dynamic, stochastic, non-linear and multi-behavior subject characteristics of traffic flow, the complexity of traffic flow is increased. Therefore, research on the stochastic behavior of traffic flow is important for understanding the intrinsic evolution rules of traffic systems. At present, a series of models were established in this field, the corresponding theoretical systems were formed, and continuously be applied in traffic. In this paper, the stochastic behavior of traffic flow is reviewed, the main method and development condition of various kinds of theoretical models are discussed. These models mainly include independent interactional models, such as the microscopic following models, the macroscopic fluid dynamics models, the mesoscopic gas dynamic models, the cellular automatic models. Interactional models, such as the interactional potential models and the weighted interactional potential models et al. Based on the summary and analysis of the present research, the future research on stochastic impact factors and the analysis of stochastic dynamics of traffic flow is prospected.