Rachid Marzoug

University center of the north. University of Guadalajara · Fundamentos del conocimiento

The speed limit signs can be used to enhance traffic safety, nevertheless, the large differences between the speed of vehicles provoked by the speed limit zone (SLZ) may increase the dissipation of energy caused by the deceleration of vehicles. In this paper, the effect of the SLZ on traffic flow and energy dissipation is investigated based on a ce...

Real-time strategy video games (RTS-VG) require players to plan strategies by recruiting cognitive abilities such as attention, motor skills, visuospatial skills, and working memory (WM). Since playing RTS-VG depends on the maintenance of major goals and active sub-goals, as well as the dynamic review of those goals as the situation requires, the o...

Los videojuegos de estrategia en tiempo real (VJ-ETR) requieren que los jugadores planeen estrategias reclutando capacidades cognitivas como atención, habilidades motoras, habilidades visuoespaciales y memoria de trabajo (MT). Ya que jugar VJ-ETR depende del mantenimiento de metas principales y submetas activas, así como de la revisión dinámica de...

Articulo de divulgación (dissemination article)

In this paper, we propose a two-lane cellular automata model that explains the relationship between traffic-related parameters and likelihood of accidents Pac at a signalized intersection. It is found that, the risk of collision rises as well as the lane-changing probability Pchg augments, besides, the accidents and inflow α show a nonlinear relati...

Man has used solar energy to dry perishable products for many years, managing to preserve a wide variety of foods naturally; drying is a method that highly respects the food's properties and nutritional content. The consumption of medicinal and aromatic herbs in Mexico is traditional and widespread. In this work, an analysis of an indirect solar dr...

Car accidents is a major source of congestion that affect the traffic dynamic especially in urban network. In this paper, we studied the impact of evacuation time (T) of damaged cars and transmission probability (r) on traffic characteristics when a car accident occurs at the intersection of two roads. Traffic is temporary stuck for T time steps th...

The Freezing Melting (F/M) is considered one of the most sustainable desalination techniques in terms of energy consumption compared with commercial desalination. However, it presents some problems, especially salt trapping, in the ice. In this paper, an experimental analysis is carried out to achieve a better understanding of saline ions displacem...

The use of solar energy for water desalination becomes vital for sustainable water supply. This paper aims to analyze the experimental behavior of double slope solar theoretically still (DSSS). In this work, we proposed a theoretical model that can predict the DSSS performance. The theoretical results of temperatures and the impact of wind speed on...

Traffic control at intersections in urban conditions directly influences the CO2 emissions in their proximity. Improving traffic control at an intersection is another way to reduce vehicular emissions and creating a positive impact on the environment. Roundabout intersection excepted to reduce the CO2 emissions as a result of reducing the vehicle i...

In this paper, we proposed a model based on the connected vehicles to control the traffic flow at the intersection. To evaluate this model, we studied its impact on the flux and the probability of accidents at the intersection. On the one hand, simulation results showed that the increase in the number of connected vehicles decreases the congestion...

In this paper, we propose a cellular automata model to study the energy dissipation in the roundabout system. The energy dissipation and the phase diagram of the system in the space (α,β) are constructed. The energy dissipation profile (SEd(i)), and the effect of the rate γ (i.e., the rate of vehicles with no aimed exit point) and the probability P...

Using the cellular automata Nagel-Schreckenberg (NaSch) model, we numerically study the impact of traffic lights on the probability of car accidents (Pac) at the intersection of two roads. It is found that, the probability Pac is more stable with variation of the green light (T) when the symmetric lights are adopted. Moreover, simulation results sh...

Various feedback strategies are proposed to improve the traffic flow. However, most of these works did not take road safety into consideration. In this paper, we studied the impact of four feedback strategies on the probability of rear-end collisions (Pac). We proposed a new feedback strategy named Accidents Coefficient Feedback Strategy (ACFS) in...

Using the Nagel-Schreckenberg model, we investigate the flow characteristics in a traffic circle system, where the entry lanes are controlled by traffic lights operating in a fixed-time ((Formula presented.). We considered four different strategies to control traffic coming from (Formula presented.) entry lanes. We found that depending on the strat...

Based on the Nagel-Schreckenberg model (NS) we study the probability of car accidents to occur (Pac) at the entrance of the merging part of two roads (i.e. junction). The simulation results show that the existence of non-cooperative drivers plays a chief role, where it increases the risk of collisions in the intermediate and high densities. Moreove...

For the purposes of optimizing traffic flow composed of different types of vehicles, it is important to understand the interactions between them. This paper proposes a cellular automata model to investigate a bidirectional two-lane traffic flow under the periodic boundary condition. The vehicle flux and the phase diagrams of the system in the (P1,...

Using cellular automata model, we numerically study the traffic characteristics and the probability Pac of car accidents to occur at the intersection of two roads under open boundary conditions. Beside the free flow (phase I), jamming phase (phase III) and maximum current (phase IV) the phase diagram exhibits a new phase (phase II) which take place...

For the purposes of optimizing vehicle flow and improving the crossings pedestrian safety, it is important to understand pedestrians-vehicles behaviors. This paper proposes a cellular automata model to study the interactions of crossings pedestrian and traffic flow on a single lane roundabout. The boundary is controlled by the injecting rates \( \u...

Using the extended Nagel–Schreckenberg (NS) model, we numerically study the impact of the heterogeneity of traffic with speed limit zone (SLZ) on the probability of occurrence of car accidents (Pac). SLZ in the heterogeneous traffic has an important effect, typically in the mixture velocities case. In the deterministic case, SLZ leads to the appear...

The control of vehicles in urban traffic is a requirement to maximize the flow and to ensure the safety of traffic. Using the cellular automata Nagel─Schreckenberg (NaSch) model within a parallel dynamic update, we studied the effect of the intersection of two symmetrical roads, with typical periodic boundary conditions. It is found that the fundam...

Using cellular automata (CA) Nagel-Schreckenberg (NaSch) model, we numerically study the probability Pac of the occurrence of car accidents at nonsignalized intersection when drivers do not respect the priority rules. We also investigated the impact of mixture lengths and velocities of vehicles on this probability. It is found that in the first cas...