Citation

van Winsum W. Transp. Res. F Traffic Psychol. Behav. 1999; 2(4): 207-211.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S1369-8478(00)00008-5

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This commentary distinguishes between the engineering-inspired formalisms used by Brackstone, M., and McDonald, M. (Transportation Research Part F (1999)) and the psychological knowledge of, and assumptions about human behaviour when car following. It outlines a preliminary mathematical model, based on psychological knowledge about car following behaviour by human drivers, which could be applied in traffic engineering, as a means of bringing these two ways of studying car following closer together.