Chain stability in traffic flow with driver reaction delays

Author

Sipahi, Rifat ; Niculescu, Silviu-Iulian

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. & Ind. Eng., Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA

fYear

2008

fDate

11-13 June 2008

Firstpage

4922

Lastpage

4927

Abstract

A deterministic microscopic car-following model considering delayed reactions of human drivers is studied from systems perspective for chain stability of a configuration of vehicles arranged on a single lane cruising at constant velocity without changing lanes. Two different driving strategies accompanied by two different delay models are incorporated in this microscopic model. Arising analytical derivations from chain stability analysis help compare the effects of these strategies to and characterization of the traffic flow in the parameter space defining the delays and the coefficients representing the aggressiveness of the drivers. Illustrative examples are provided.

Keywords

delays; road traffic; stability; chain stability analysis; deterministic microscopic car-following model; driver reaction delays; traffic flow; Asymptotic stability; Delay effects; Humans; Mathematical model; Microscopy; Stability analysis; Traffic control; US Department of Transportation; Vehicle driving; Vehicle dynamics; discrete delay; distributed delay; slinky effects; stability; traffic dynamics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

American Control Conference, 2008

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

ISSN

0743-1619

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2078-0

Electronic_ISBN

0743-1619

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACC.2008.4587274

Filename

4587274