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- Title
Analysis of the effect of older drivers' driving behaviors on traffic flow based on a modified CA model.
- Authors
Jian, Mei-Ying; Shi, Jing; Liu, Yang
- Abstract
As the global population ages, there are more and more older drivers on the road. The decline in driving performance of older drivers may influence the properties of traffic flow and safety. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of older drivers' driving behaviors on traffic flow. A modified cellular automaton (CA) model which takes driving behaviors of older drivers into account is proposed. The simulation results indicate that older drivers' driving behaviors induce a reduction in traffic flow especially when the density is higher than 15 vehicles per km per lane and an increase in Lane-changing frequency. The analysis of stability shows that a number of disturbances could frequently emerge, be propagated and eventually dissipate in this modified model. The results also reflect that with the increase of older drivers on the road, the probability of the occurrence of rear-end collisions increases greatly and obviously. Furthermore, the value of acceleration influences the traffic flow and safety significantly. These results provide the theoretical basis and reference for the traffic management departments to develop traffic management measure in the aging society.
- Subjects
OLDER automobile drivers; TRAFFIC flow; DRIVING cessation; CELLULAR automata; VARIABLE speed limits; AGGRESSIVE driving; SPEEDING violations; POPULATION aging; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
International Journal of Modern Physics C: Computational Physics & Physical Computation, 2016, Vol 27, Issue 3, p-1
- ISSN
0129-1831
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0129183116500315