AbstractWe present in this paper a new car-following theory that can reproduce both the so-called capacity drop and traffic hysteresis, two prominent features of multiphase vehicular traffic flow. This is achieved through the introduction of a single variable, gap-time, that depends on both vehicle gap-distance and traffic phase. By specifying different functional forms of gap-time, one can obtain not only brand new theories but also some of the well-known old car-following theories, which is demonstrated in this paper through both theoretical analysis and numerical simulation.


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    Title :

    A car-following theory for multiphase vehicular traffic flow


    Contributors:
    Zhang, H.M. (author) / Kim, T. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2004-06-11


    Size :

    15 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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