01475130

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/2316-04

http://scholar.google.com...hang&publication_year=2012

In normal driving conditions, drivers can usually anticipate with a good degree of accuracy the movements of vehicles ahead of them. Such anticipation can reduce the gaps between vehicles and produce high flows on freeway lanes. This anticipation effect is introduced in a car-following model in continuous space and discrete time, along with a set of driving rules that capture the car-following behavior of drivers. Detailed analysis shows that the model can simulate the full range of traffic conditions—free flow, congestion, and traffic jams under fixed and moving bottlenecks—and produce realistic flow capacities and fundamental diagrams with different levels of anticipation. Moreover, analysis of jam formation and decay reveals the underlying relationship between the parameters of the model and the triangular fundamental diagram. The platoon effect can be captured in the model by gap anticipation level (α) dependent on the gap.

01474809

12-4336

English

0000-0002-4647-3888

pp 31-37

2012

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309263221

Print

Figures; References

Behavior; Bottlenecks; Car following; Drivers; Highway capacity; Traffic congestion; Traffic flow; Traffic models; Traffic platooning

Anticipation; Fundamental diagram; Traffic jams

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I71: Traffic Theory

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Mar 13 2013 9:27AM

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