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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Driver Dynamics and the Longitudinal Control Model

Leiner, Gabriel G. 01 January 2012 (has links) (PDF)
Driver psychology is one of the most difficult phenomena to model in the realm of traffic flow theory because mathematics often cannot capture the human factors involved with driving a car. Over the past several decades, many models have attempted to model driver aggressiveness with varied results. The recently proposed Longitudinal Control Model (LCM) makes such an attempt, and this paper offers evidence of the LCM's usefulness in modeling road dynamics by analyzing deceleration rates that are commonly associated with various levels of aggression displayed by drivers. The paper is roughly divided into three sections, one outlining the LCM's ability to quantify forces between passive and aggressive drivers on a microscopic level, one describing the LCM's ability to measure aggressiveness of platoons of drivers, and the last explaining the meaning of the model’s derivative. The paper references some attempts to capture driver aggressiveness made by classic car-following models, and endeavors to offer some new ideas in study of driver characteristics and traffic flow theory.

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