SAFETY IN CAR FOLLOWING: A COMPUTER SIMULATION

THE DRIVING SITUATION INVESTIGATED IN THIS STUDY OF SAFE DRIVING CONCERNS, SINGLE-LANE, NO-PASSING, CAR-FOLLOWING AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC. IN THIS INITIAL STUDY THE AIM HAS BEEN TO INVESTIGATE IN SOME DEPTH THOSE DRIVER AND VEHICLE CHARACTERISTICS WHICH ARE MOST IMPORTANT IN SAFE AUTOMOBILE DRIVING. THE TOOL CHOSEN FOR THE INVESTIGATION WAS COMPUTER SIMULATION. IN ORDER TO INVESTIGATE IN SOME DEPTH THE INTER- REACTIONS OF VARIOUS FACTORS, THE SIMPLE NO-PASSING DRIVING SITUATION WAS INVESTIGATED. FROM THE OUTSET IT SHOULD BE EMPHASIZED THAT THE MODEL SIMULATED HERE HAS NO RANDOM CHARACTERISTICS. THIS HAS NOT BEEN A MONTE CARLO TYPE OF INVESTIGATION BASED ON RANDOM SELECTIONS FROM DISTRIBUTIONS POSTULATED FOR MODEL CHARACTERISTICS. THE MODEL IS DETERMINATE. THE AIM HAS BEEN TO INVESTIGATE, IN A STRICTLY DETERMINATE, WELL-DEFINED WAY, THE EFFECT OF PARAMETER VARIATION ON CAR-FOLLOWING PATTERNS. A DISCUSSION OF THE SIMULATION ON THE COMPUTER ARE GIVEN. THE VARIOUS TYPES OF CASES RUN WITH THE SIMULATION, WITH SOME OF THE MORE IMPORTANT RESULTS, ARE RELATED. THE RESULTS OF THE STUDY TO THE TOTAL ACCIDENT PICTURE BY CONSIDERING COUNTERMEASURES ARE RELATED. IN ATTEMPTING TO DEFINE OR PROPOSE ACCIDENT COUNTERMEASURE, IT IS CLEAR THAT THE PARAMETERS WHICH HAVE PROVED MOST SENSITIVE IN DETERMINING DRIVING STABILITY SHOULD BE THOSE FOR WHICH COUNTERMEASURES ARE INITIALLY CONSIDERED. THESE PARTICULAR PARAMETERS ARE CONSIDERED IN THIS LIGHT. AN EXTENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY IS INCLUDED. /AUTHOR/

• Corporate Authors:

  Newark College of Engineering

  323 High Street
  Newark, NJ  United States  07102
• Authors:
  • Fox, P
  • Lehman, F G
• Publication Date: 1967

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bibliographies; Car following; Crash rates; Drivers; Human characteristics; Information processing; Mathematical models; No passing zones; Simulation; Single lane traffic; Vehicle characteristics
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver characteristics; Models; Parameters
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00219933
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 174 pp
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 16 1994 12:00AM