CAR-FOLLOWING MODELS: AN EXPERIMENT BASED BENCHMARKING

Car-following model has important applications in traffic and safety engineering e.g. for traffic simulation, Advance Vehicle Control and Safety System etc. A great deal of investigation works were conducted in the last five decades to model the longitudinal interaction between adjacent vehicles as a result numerous models are available now. A performance based benchmarking of these models might be useful to evaluate their capabilities in representing real driving behavior. Data precision is the key factor to make any such evaluation meaningful. RTK GPS is the latest technology in data acquisition that makes it possible to acquire high resolution vehicular movement data at an outstanding level of accuracy. Several car-following models were evaluated based on test track experiment data using a GA based optimization method. It was interesting to see a simple linear model performing better than some sophisticated models.

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