A new overtaking model and numerical tests
Abstract
A new model for overtaking on highway is proposed. The model considers such important factors as the reactive delay time for vehicle acceleration, deceleration, and lane-changing, the safe distance for car-following and the distance for overtaking. The time required for overtaking, the time loss in overtaking procedure and the space-time evolution of vehicle movement are numerically investigated using the model and compared with the results from a survey. Numerical results show that our model can generate the traffic in accord with the observed one. The overtaking in a two-lane bidirectional traffic flow is also analyzed.
- Publication:
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Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
- Pub Date:
- March 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.physa.2006.10.044
- Bibcode:
- 2007PhyA..376..649T