How reaction time, update time, and adaptation time influence the stability of traffic flow

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 125-137

  Kesting, Arne ^a   Treiber, Martin ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECELERATION; HUMAN REACTION TIME; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VELOCITY;

LONGITUDINAL INSTABILITY MECHANISMS; NUMERICAL UPDATE TIME; TIME-CONTINUOUS CAR-FOLLOWING MODEL; VELOCITY ADAPTATION TIME;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECELERATION; HUMAN REACTION TIME; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; VELOCITY;

INSTABILITY; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; VELOCITY; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 38049188048     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: 14678667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8667.2007.00529.x     Document Type: Article

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