Eur. Phys. J. B 7, 331-335 (1999)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050618

Multi-anticipative car-following model

Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Information and Communications, ZT IK 4, Otto-Hahn-Ring 6, 81730 Munich, Germany

Received: 23 March 1998
Accepted: 3 August 1998
Published online: 15 January 1999

Abstract

The microscopic car-following model by Bando et al. [CITE] is extended by incorporating multi-vehicle interactions. It is shown that the reaction to more than one vehicle ahead leads to a stabilization of the dynamical behavior, i.e. the stable region increases. Still the fundamental macroscopic properties of traffic, free flow and congested flow, are described. More important, due to the multi-anticipative driving behavior driving in narrow platoons is forced such that a third fundamental property of traffic flow, the so-called synchronized flow [CITE], is modeled as well.