A behavioral car-following model that captures traffic oscillations

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 744-761

  Chen, Danjue ^a   Laval, Jorge ^a   Zheng, Zuduo ^b   Ahn, Soyoung ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Car following behavior; Driver heterogeneity; Reaction to oscillations; Rubbernecking; Traffic oscillations

Indexed keywords

TRANSPORTATION;

CAR FOLLOWING MODELS; CAR-FOLLOWING BEHAVIOR; DRIVER HETEROGENEITY; OSCILLATION CYCLES; PERIOD OF OSCILLATION; REACTION TO OSCILLATIONS; RUBBERNECKING; SPONTANEOUS FORMATION;

RESEARCH;

AUTOMOBILE; BEHAVIOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 84860885389     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2012.01.009     Document Type: Article

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