Title: ACCELERATED TRAFfiC MODEL BASED ON PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS
Issue Number: | Vol. 7, No. 1 |
Year of Publication: | Jan - 2017 |
Page Numbers: | 26-34 |
Authors: | Takahiro Suzuki, Shihoko Tanabe |
Journal Name: | International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (IJDIWC) - Hong Kong |
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17781/P002229
Abstract:
This paper presents an acceleration model of traffic resource utilization from psychological effects of car drivers on a single lane traffic resource. Two kinds of acceleration, boundary and fluctuation effects, which are of drivers effects are considered. The boundary effect, which is based on a hard sphere model, is an interaction that drivers feel the pressure from other cars in front or behind. The fluctuation effect, which can achieve the higher resource utilization in a hard sphere model, is to accelerate or reduce car speed randomly. The two effects are closely related to how we drive a car in highway traffic. We introduce several types of drivers depending on the two effects combined with two car moving types: a fast moving and a sure moving. We finally examine the traffic flow features, which include phase transitions, among their types of drivers by computer simulation.