With the continuous development of cities, road reconstruction has become increasingly common. Work zones have become a typical type of urban road bottleneck. This paper develops an Environment Information-Based Behavior-Constrained Cellular Automaton (EIBC) model within the framework of Kerner’s three-phase traffic theory. The model is used to describe how mandatory lane-changing influences traffic flow near an urban work zone. It also considers the disturbance effect of transport trucks. Simulation results show that the proposed model can qualitatively reproduce synchronized flow and related congestion patterns reported in the literature. The model can also reflect the disturbance effect of transport trucks under work zone conditions. Therefore, the EIBC model provides a mechanism-oriented framework for interpreting traffic phase evolution near urban work zone bottlenecks. It may also support the discussion of traffic organization in such scenarios.
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