Stabilization effect of traffic flow in an extended car-following model based on an intelligent transportation system application
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- 23 December 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 70 (6), 066134-066134/6
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.70.066134
Abstract
An extended car following model is proposed by incorporating an intelligent transportation system in traffic. The stability condition of this model is obtained by using the linear stability theory. The results show that anticipating the behavior of more vehicles ahead leads to the stabilization of traffic systems. The modified Korteweg-de Vries equation (the mKdV equation, for short) near the critical point is derived by applying the reductive perturbation method. The traffic jam could be thus described by the kink-antikink soliton solution for the mKdV equation. From the simulation of space-time evolution of the vehicle headway, it is shown that the traffic jam is suppressed efficiently with taking into account the information about the motion of more vehicles in front, and the analytical result is consonant with the simulation one.Keywords
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