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Car following theory with lateral discomfort
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In this paper, a car following model was developed with particular reference to weak discipline of lane-based driving, based on the discomfort caused by lateral friction between vehicles, and the movement of the following vehicle was formulated as a function of the off-centre effects of its leader(s).Abstract:
A car following model has been developed with particular reference to weak discipline of lane-based driving. The theory is based on the discomfort caused by lateral friction between vehicles. The movement of the following vehicle was formulated as a function of the off-centre effects of its leader(s). This incorporation of lateral friction offers a potential breakthrough in the fields of car following theory and microscopic simulation of traffic flow. Using a stopping-distance car following approach, the simulation presented in the paper pointed out the effect of the travel path width on the speed of the following vehicle, and the reduced following distance with increased lateral separation between the leader and follower. It was also shown that a special case of the proposed model (i.e. when the maximum escape speed is zero) produced the same results as the base model did for the conventional car following case. The simulation behaved rationally giving credibility to the author's staggered car following theory.read more
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A behavioural car-following model for computer simulation
TL;DR: A new model is constructed for the response of the following vehicle based on the assumption that each driver sets limits to his desired braking and acceleration rates and it is shown that when realistic values are assigned to the parameters in a simulation, the model reproduces the characteristics of real traffic flow.
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Traffic flow fundamentals
TL;DR: The remaining portion of the book, Chapters 8 through 13, is devoted to analytical techniques involving the total traffic flow situation; chapter subjects are, respectively, demand-supply analysis, capacity analysis, traffic stream models, shock wave analysis, queueing analysis, and computer simulation models.
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Car-following: a historical review
Mark Brackstone,Mike McDonald +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the range of options available in the choice of car-following model, and assess just how far work has proceeded in our understanding of what, at times, would appear to be a simple process.
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Car following models and the fundamental diagram of road traffic
TL;DR: A review of car-following and control-system models for traffic flow can be found in this article, where a new model which appears to have some merit is also presented.
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In traffic flow, cellular automata = kinematic waves
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proved that the vehicle trajectories predicted by a simple linear car-following model, CF(L), the kinematic wave model with a triangular fundamental diagram, KW(T), and two cellular automata models CA(L) and CA(M) match everywhere to within a tolerance comparable with a single jam spacing.