## 3 Results and Discussion
### Results and Discussion of Experiment 2  
Figures 7-9 present period index vs. network speed, period index vs. network density, and period index vs. network flow, respectively. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c} \hline \hline \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Compared**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Comparing the Speed**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Comparing Capacity**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Comparing Capacity**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**MFDs**} \\
**Simulations** & **(m/s)** & **(veh/s)** & **(veh/m)** & **Comparison Verdict** \\ \hline S1 and S2 & \(\text{D}_{\text{speed}}^{\text{S1S2}}=0.6592\) & \(\text{D}_{\text{flow}}^{\text{S1S2}}=0.00455\) & \(\text{D}_{\text{density}}^{\text{S1S2}}=0.001826\) & \multirow{2}{*}{Similar} \\  & (similar) & (similar) & (similar) & (similar) \\ S2 and S3 & \(\text{D}_{\text{speed}}^{\text{S2S3}}=0.7956\) & \(\text{D}_{\text{flow}}^{\text{S2S3}}=0.014557\) & \(\text{D}_{\text{density}}^{\text{S2S3}}=0.005597\) & \\  & (similar) & (dissimilar) & (dissimilar) & \\ S1 and S3 & \(\text{D}_{\text{speed}}^{\text{S1S3}}=1.4486\) & \(\text{D}_{\text{flow}}^{\text{S1S3}}=0.019108\) & \(\text{D}_{\text{density}}^{\text{S1S3}}=0.007424\) & \\  & (dissimilar) & (dissimilar) & (dissimilar) & \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 1: Comparing simulations with metrics: experiment 1. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c} \hline \hline \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Sim**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Period 1 to 40**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Period 41 to 80**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Period 80 to 204**} \\ \hline \multirow{8}{*}{**S1-1**} & AVG speed (m/s) & 8.94926718872254 & 8.51977706960548 & 8.28313045186715 \\  & STD speed (m/s) & 0.509450884198832 & 0.396801577211994 & 0.661450465348051 \\  & AVG density (veh/m) & 0.0109832325877089 & 0.0129306974086639 & 0.0166771482607360 \\  & STD density (veh/m) & 0.0009898721623683841 & 0.000600500246470353 & 0.00145233179867904 \\  & AVG flow (veh/s) & 0.07688888888889 & 0.0995185185185 & 0.13019532920631 \\  & STD flow (veh/s) & 0.01323930121827418 & 0.00659889579912034 & 0.0181354198974069 \\ \hline \multirow{8}{*}{**S1-1**} & AVG speed (m/s) & 8.28993901306706 & 7.97190484356544 & 7.15742558895287 \\  & STD speed (m/s) & 0.52544738286513 & 0.289676483985101 & 0.6417520221714726 \\  & AVG density (veh/m) & 0.0111114429629568 & 0.0132940390041025 & 0.0194440957389438 \\  & STD density (veh/m) & 0.000932282443886002 & 0.000697463548430562 & 0.00223166553880638 \\  & AVG flow (veh/s) & 0.0767777777777777778 & 0.0993148148148148 & 0.130292712066906 \\  & STD flow (veh/s) & 0.0133750008423410 & 0.00715306455474556 & 0.0179194442178534 \\ \hline \multirow{8}{*}{**S1-2**} & AVG speed (m/s) & 7.47604877652992 & 6.96968513152068 & 5.78687086950815 \\  & STD speed (m/s) & 0.477964209633950 & 0.331662461188288 & 1.67627926136163 \\ \cline{1-1}  & AVG density (veh/m) & 0.0114605066447026 & 0.01458884916986345 & 0.0254291591795365 \\ \cline{1-1}  & STD density (veh/m) & 0.00105492450138108 & 0.00079870643991101 & 0.0003979438586012 \\ \cline{1-1}  & AVG flow (veh/s) & 0.0764259259259259 & 0.098888888888888889 & 0.0904049100528506 \\ \cline{1-1}  & STD flow (veh/s) & 0.0141203692027462 & 0.00652912889373503 & 0.0359795272430116 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 2: Traffic indicators’ AVG and STD of S1, S2, and S3 in each phase: experiment 1. Figures 10-12 show the network density vs. network speed, network speed vs. network flow, and network density vs. network flow, respectively. The distance between the network density vs. network speed pattern of simulation 1 (in green dots) and the pattern of simulation 2 (in green circles) is \(\rm D_{speed}^{SIS2}=0.8842\ m/s\); between simulation 2 and simulation 3 (in green crosses), it is \(\rm D_{speed}^{SES3}=0.6974\ m/s\); and between S1 and S3, it is \(\rm D_{speed}^{SIS3}=1.5998\ m/s\). Therefore, the DS patterns of S1 and S2 are similar, the DS patterns of S2 and S3 are similar, and the DS patterns of S1 and S3 are dissimilar.