TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - The night driving behavior in a car-following model
JO  - Physica A: statistical mechanics and its applications
A1  - Jiang, Rui
A1  - Wu, Qing-Song
SP  - 297
EP  - 306
VL  - 375
IS  - 1
N2  - In this paper, we have studied the night driving behaviors in the car-following model in periodic boundary conditions. The evolution of uniform traffic under both small and large perturbations is investigated. The simulations show that the traffic is always unstable when V' less than 0 with V the optimal velocity. The traffic clusters, the kink-antikink waves, and the unstable clusters are observed under different sensitivity parameters. Even more interesting phenomenon is observed when the randomness effect is considered. Under large perturbations, it is shown that the traffic will be unstable if its density is smaller than a threshold. The density corresponding to the threshold increases with the decrease of the sensitivity parameter values.<p />
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SN  - 0378-4371
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2006.09.011
ID  - ref1
ER  -