Cellular automata model of car traffic in a two-dimensional street network

We propose a road traffic cellular automata model suitable for an urban environment. North, east, south and west car displacements are possible and road crossings are naturally implemented as rotary junctions. We consider the traffic in a Manhattan-like city and study the how diagram and the car density profile along road segments. We observe that the length of the car queues obeys a complex dynamics and is not uniform across the network. The street length between two junctions and the turning strategies at rotaries are relevant parameters of the model. Our results are also confirmed by fully continuous traffic simulations.