Enhanced intelligent driver model to access the impact of driving strategies on traffic capacity

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1928, 2010, Pages 4585-4605

  Kesting, Arne ^a   Treiber, Martin ^a   Helbing, Dirk ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive cruise control; Car following model; Dynamic capacity; Free flow capacity; Human driving behaviour; Microscopic traffic simulation

Indexed keywords

FLOW SIMULATION; TRAFFIC SURVEYS; VEHICLES;

ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL; CAR-FOLLOWING MODELS; DYNAMIC CAPACITY; FLOW CAPACITY; HUMAN DRIVING; MICROSCOPIC TRAFFIC SIMULATION;

STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 77958065763     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0084     Document Type: Article

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