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Impact of driving aggressiveness on the traffic stability based on an extended optimal velocity model

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The drivers in actual traffic differ in the aggressiveness in driving behaviors, which will finally be reflected in the interaction between vehicles and fluctuations in flows. In this paper, we try to study the effect of driving aggressiveness on the traffic stability by proposing an extended microscopic car-following model, in which the optimal velocity is reconstructed to divide the drivers in traffic system into two groups according to driving aggressiveness of each individual. The stability condition of the proposed model is derived to explore its ability against a small perturbation by use of the linear stability theory. We obtain the neutral stability lines for different percentages of drivers with a higher driving aggressiveness, finding that the traffic flow trends to stable with the increase in the percentage for higher driving aggressiveness drivers when the average headway is less than a critical value or greater than another critical value, but when the average headway falls into the intermediate range between the two critical values, the traffic flow becomes more and more unstable with increase in the percentage of drivers with a higher driving aggressiveness. Finally, numerical simulations are conducted to verify these theoretical results and examine how the percentage of vehicles driven by higher driving aggressiveness drivers affects the traffic flux of the vehicle system.

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61202384, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No. 0800219198, the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai under Grant No. 12ZR1433900, the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China under Grant No. 2012AA112801, and the Scientific Research and Development Program of China Railway Corporation under Grant No. 2013X016-B.

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    Zhipeng Li, Leimin Liu, Shangzhi Xu & Yeqing Qian

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Li, Z., Liu, L., Xu, S. et al. Impact of driving aggressiveness on the traffic stability based on an extended optimal velocity model. Nonlinear Dyn 81, 2059–2070 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-015-2125-y

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