A car-following model accounting for the driver’s attribution

Tie-Qiao Tang, Jia He, Shi-Chun Yang and Hua-Yan Shang

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2014, vol. 413, issue C, 583-591

Abstract: In this paper, we use the FVD (full velocity difference) model to develop a car-following model with consideration of the driver’s attribution. The numerical results show that the proposed model can qualitatively reproduce the effects of the driver’s attribution on each vehicle’s speed, acceleration, fuel consumption and exhaust emissions under two typical traffic states, i.e., the aggressive driver enhances his speed, acceleration, fuel consumption and exhaust emissions while the conservative driver reduces his speed, acceleration, fuel consumption and exhaust emissions, so the aggressive driver’s speed, acceleration, fuel consumption and exhaust emissions are greater than those of the neutral driver and the neutral driver’s speed, acceleration, fuel consumption and exhaust emissions are greater than those of the conservative driver. In addition, we further study each vehicle’s speed, acceleration, fuel consumption and exhaust emissions when aggressive drivers, neutral drivers and conservative drivers are uniformly mixed. The numerical results show that there are no prominent differences between the mixed traffic flow and the homogeneous traffic flow consisting of neutral driver, i.e., each vehicle’s speed, acceleration, fuel consumption and exhaust emissions are similar to those of the neutral driver.

Keywords: Traffic flow; Car-following model; Driver’s attributions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (20)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437114006049
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only. Journal offers the option of making the article available online on Science direct for a fee of $3,000

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:413:y:2014:i:c:p:583-591

DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2014.07.035

Access Statistics for this article

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications is currently edited by K. A. Dawson, J. O. Indekeu, H.E. Stanley and C. Tsallis

More articles in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().