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A new car-following model with consideration of inter-vehicle communication

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In this paper, we construct a new car-following model with inter-vehicle communication (IVC) to study the driving behavior under an accident. The numerical results show that the proposed model can qualitatively describe the effects of IVC on each vehicle’s speed, acceleration, movement trail, and headway under an accident and that the new model can overcome the full velocity difference (FVD) model’s shortcoming that collisions occur under an accident, which illustrates that the new model can better describe the driving behavior under an accident than the FVD model.

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  1. Note: the other factors are described by the notation “...” in Eq. (1).

  2. Note that \(a_\mathrm{n}\) is the nth vehicle’s acceleration obtained by the proposed model and that \(\bar{{a}}_\mathrm{n}\) is the nth vehicle acceleration obtained by the FVD model [7].

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Acknowledgments

This study has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71271016) and the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB725404). The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees for their helpful comments and valuable suggestions which have improved the paper substantially.

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  1. School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beijing Key Laboratory for Cooperative Vehicle Infrastructure Systems and Safety Control, Beihang University, Beijing , 100191, China

    Tieqiao Tang, Weifang Shi & Yunpeng Wang

  2. Information College, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing , 100070, China

    Huayan Shang

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Tang, T., Shi, W., Shang, H. et al. A new car-following model with consideration of inter-vehicle communication. Nonlinear Dyn 76, 2017–2023 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-014-1265-9

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